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The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Nintendo (EAD Software Development Group 3) 2006 When an evil shadow stretches from the heart of Hyrule to its peaceful borderlands, a young farm boy named Link must awaken the hero ... and the animal ... within. When Link travels to the darkened land of Hyrule, he transforms into a wolf and must scour the land with the help of a mysterious being named Midna. Ride into battle against troops of foul creatures, using an incredible horseback combat system, then take on massive bosses that must be seen to be believed. Many puzzles stand between Link and the fulfillment of his quest, so players must sharpen their wits as they hunt for weapons and items. Link, a young man raised as a wrangler in a rural village, is ordered by the mayor to attend the Hyrule Summit. He sets off, oblivious to the dark fate that has descended upon the kingdom. When he enters the Twilight Realm that has covered Hyrule, he transforms into a wolf and is captured. A mysterious figure named Midna helps him break free, and with the aid of her magic, they set off to free the land from the shadows. Link must explore the vast land of Hyrule and uncover the mystery behind its plunge into darkness. As he does, he’ll have to enlist the aid of friendly folk, solve puzzles and battle his way through dangerous dungeons. In the Twilight Realm, he’ll have to use his wolf abilities and Midna’s magic to bring light to the land.***Better than the Wii version.
[Zerothis]***Nintendo EAD/Nintendo won the 7th annual (2007) Game developers Choice Awards - Best Writing. Kyogoku Aya, Nate Bihldorff, and Mitsuhiro Takano were designated in the nomination.
Nintendo EAD was also nominated for Best Game. Eiji Aonuma, Satoru Iwata, and Shigeru Miyamoto were designated in the nomination.
This game was not offered in many markets and delayed in others due to the fear that it would hinder sales of the Wii.
[Zerothis]***This gritty, sweeping adventure will set a new standard for video games with vast lands, stunning visuals and amazing new game play that allows you to control Link, whether he travels on foot, on horseback or on all fours - as a wolf. en, jp labelimagesubject
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Jisoo is the stage name of Kim Ji Soo, a South Korean singer who is best known for being a member of the K-pop girl group BLACKPINK. Born on January 3, 1995, Jisoo joined YG Entertainment in July 2011 and trained for five years before debuting with BLACKPINK in 2016. In February 2017, Jisoo became an MC for the popular music variety show “SBS Inki Gayo.”
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On January 22, 2010, VMware made some changes to its support options. We adjusted the names of the Gold and Platinum offerings to more accurately reflect the level of support customers receive.
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UN agencies welcome first 24 unaccompanied asylum-seeking children from Greece
A group of 49 unaccompanied children left Greece this week for Portugal and Finland after having lived for several months in overcrowded reception centers on the islands of Greece. ©UNICEF/Aris Athanatos
IOM, the International Organization for Migration, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and UNICEF, the UN Children’s Fund today welcomed the relocation of 24 unaccompanied asylum-seeking children from Greece.
The children arrived safely in Finland this afternoon after having lived for several months in overcrowded reception and identification centers on the islands of Lesvos, Samos and Chios. The children arrived in good health. They have been received by the Finnish Immigration Service, MIGRI, and are all seeking international protection, which will now be processed individually.
This group is the first of several to be relocated to Finland, who has generously offered to receive a total of 175 asylum-seekers, including unaccompanied minors from Greece and vulnerable single-parent families from Malta and Cyprus.
Finland is hereby showing an important act of European solidarity and helping to relieve the alarmingly overcrowded and concerning situation in the Greek islands.
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The relocation was organized by the Governments of Finland and Greece and coordinated by the European Commission with the support from IOM, UNHCR and UNICEF and the European Asylum Office (EASO). The relocation project aims to relocate 1,600 unaccompanied and other vulnerable people from Greece to other participating European states.
To date, 11 EU Member States are participating in the scheme. Already, 90 unaccompanied children have been brought to Luxembourg, Germany and Portugal – and more transfers are planned to take place in the coming weeks to Belgium, France, Germany, Lithuania and Slovenia.
“We are still in the early stages, but the relocations are set to accelerate through this truly cooperative effort between Greece, European states, UN agencies and the European Commission,” said Ola Henrikson, IOM Regional Director for the EEA, EU and NATO. “Relocation is a practical and humane act of solidarity that works. It works for the most vulnerable children and others in need, it works for Greece and we think it is something that will continue working for Europe.”
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“We are very pleased to see the commitments by EU states translating into concrete action. This is evidence that European solidarity is a reality. Such collective efforts to find solutions need to con tinue and be strengthened”, said Pascale Moreau, UNHCR Regional Director for Europe. “There are still hundreds of unaccompanied refugee children in Greece in desperate and unsafe conditions. Securing their future and well-being should be our common goal and moral imperative.”
“Europe is offering these children a fresh start in life,” said Ms. Afshan Khan, UNICEF Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia. “They are now safe, have access to health care and education and they can enjoy rights which belong to every child. Growing up, they will need the support of the community, and we all have a part to play in this. Meanwhile, most of the children are still living in the camp. We can and must move faster for the children still left behind.”
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As of early July, there were almost 4,700 unaccompanied and separated children in Greece in urgent need of durable solutions, including expedited registration, family reunification and relocation. Among them, more than 1,100 are exposed to severe risks, including exploitation and violence, and facing precarious and overcrowded conditions on the Aegean islands.
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Stefan Moskal of Garfield, entered eternal life, surrounded by his loving family on April 8th, 2020, he was 72. Stefan was born in Stany Poland on March 18th, 1948, to Jozef and Ewa (Iskra) Moskal. He came to the United States in 1967, and on April 2... Read More
Stefan Moskal of Garfield, entered eternal life, surrounded by his loving family on April 8th, 2020, he was 72. Stefan was born in Stany Poland on March 18th, 1948, to Jozef and Ewa (Iskra) Moskal. He came to the United States in 1967, and on April 26th, 1969, he married his beloved wife of nearly 51 years, Anna (Krawiec). Stefan owned and operated his own general contracting business, Stefan Contractors, retiring in 2010 at the age of 62. He had lived in Passaic, moving to Garfield in 1976. Stefan was an avid outdoors-man. He loved nature, enjoyed gardening, flowers, vegetables, mushroom picking, bee keeping and racing pigeons. He had belonged to the Garfield and Paterson Pigeon flying clubs for many years. Stefan is survived by his beloved wife Anna, his three devoted sons and their wives Steven and Agnieszka, Mark and Vicki, Eric and Jessica. He is also survived by his six cherished grandchildren; Lauren, Wyatt, Ian, Eva, Ben and Lila. He is also survived by his dear siblings Matthew Moskal, Maria Malysa and Sophie Roman. A private graveside funeral service will be held at Our Lady of Czestochowa Cemetery in Doylestown, PA. A memorial Mass will be celebrated at Holy Rosary Church in Passaic, at a later time. Please check back regularly for updates, and please leave your condolences for the family. www.WarnerAndWozniak.com
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OnTheMarket has confirmed that it chalked up record visits for July – and chief executive Ian Springett says it is on a growth path which is on course to overtake Zoopla.
Springett claimed OTM has achieved in six months what it took Zoopla three years to do.
OTM said it had 5.2m visits last month, up 18% from the 4.4m in June. It uses Google Analytics as measurement.
The site also claims to have attracted more than 2.4m unique visitors last month, which was an increase of 17% on June's figure of more than 2 million
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Angela Merkel clinches Time's 'Person of the Year'
'For asking more of her country than most politicians'
By Cheryl Chumley
Published December 9, 2015 at 9:16am
German Chancellor Angela Merkel (Credit: Time "Choice" story)
Germany's Angela Merkel has been named Time's "Person of the Year" for her perceived steadfastness in the face of adversity and fight "against tyranny," the magazine's editor wrote.
"Leaders are tested only when people don't want to follow," said Time Editor Nancy Gibbs in a widely reported statement. "For asking more of her country than most politicians would dare, for standing firm against tyranny as well as expedience and for providing steadfast moral leadership in a world where it is in short supply, Angela Merkel is Time's 'Person of the Year.'"
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Merkel, at age 61, is only the fourth woman to be selected by Time for the honor, which has been an annual pick since 1927.
She bests seven other finalists for this year, including Donald Trump, the Black Lives Matter protest movement, Russia's Vladimir Putin, Iraq President Hassan Rouhani, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and, of consternation to many, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS.
On the last, Time had written: "[He's] inspired followers to both fight in his self-declared caliphate of Iraq and Syria, and also stage attacks in countries like Tunisia and France."
Former Olympian Bruce Jenner, who now goes by Caitlyn Jenner, was also on the magazine's short list for "coming out as a transgender woman," an act that "prompted widespread conversations about gender identity and issues of equality for the LGBT community."
Part of Merkel's draw for the Time deciders was her ability to withstand pressure from Trump over her open-door welcome to refugees from Syria.
"The blowback [for her decision] has come fast and from all sides," Time wrote, in its "Choice" piece. "Donald Trump called Merkel 'insane' and called the refugees 'one of the great Trojan horses.' German protesters called her a traitor, a whore; her allies warned of a popular revolt and her opponents warned of economic collapse and cultural suicide."
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Pretty Little Liar turned Spring Breaker, there’s a lot more to anti-fame icon Ashley Benson than meets the eye.
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There are some TV shows you can just pop in on, and pick up on the action and characters and plot from that point forward. Pretty Little Liars is not one of them. The ABC Family teen thriller is exasperatingly conflated, full of red herrings, redder herrings, and herrings of a red so bright it would make a Ferrari blush. Something about a girl being killed and someone named “A” (possibly the dead girl) haunting her friends via text message.
“I’m so confused about the show myself,” says Ashley Benson. She plays Hanna Marin, who is either the mean girl or the funny girl or the vulnerable girl. On a cold late-December day, sipping an iced tea at the restaurant within the Chateau Marmont, that citadel of celebrity, she laughs at the thought of hardly knowing what’s going on in the show that’s made her something of a hero among teens.
“Everyone’s like, ‘What’s happening?’ I’m like, ‘I honestly don’t know,’” she says with another hearty, raspy laugh. Unlike the show’s liars, it is quickly apparent that Benson is brutally candid. “We film so much, I never remember anything. I’ll be filming a scene, and I’ll be like, ‘Wait, why are we doing this, what’s happening, and who is this person?’”
But there are obviously a lot of people out there who do know exactly what’s going on, because it’s the cable network’s longest-running show ever, having just confirmed a seventh and supposedly final season. “I think they want to do more, and a film,” Benson says. “It never stops getting bigger. I’m like, ‘The fact that you guys still like it after five seasons of not knowing who the hell ‘A’ is, I applaud you.’”
Because of her role as Marin, Benson is extraordinarily popular – 5.3 million fans follow her on Instagram, the tabloids tirelessly debate her love life, and she attracts attention, wherever she goes, from the show’s zealous fans, many of whom have grown up with Benson throughout the show’s five seasons and are now going off to college. But there’s a sense that Benson isn’t exactly comfortable with the pressure of fame.
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“Weirdly, I’m shy,” she says. “When people first meet me, they always think that I’m a bitch. I always get called that. Always. Because I don’t talk. I get really nervous in public situations, but once you get to know me, I’m so outgoing, I’m so loud and bombastic. I have the biggest mouth. But [at first] I’m very closed off. I hold in emotions. I don’t like to be vulnerable, ever. But when you’re acting, you get to explore those feelings and those emotions and those moments. Acting is so fun. I love memorising lines and I love doing scenes.”
She sighs. “If I could work and not have anyone know who I am – I know it’s not possible – that would be my goal.”
A younger Benson sought that fame, acting and modelling from an early age, having grown up in Anaheim. “When I was little, I was such a ham,” she says, blowing on a spoonful of the lentil soup that has just come to the table. “I’m obsessed with my younger self. I want her to be my daughter. I said anything I wanted then. I was so funny. I watch videos, and I’m like, ‘What happened to that girl?’ She’s not here. She comes out when [I’m] drunk, or on TV.”
She recalls her first brush with fame, something that keeps her grounded, when thinking of her own popularity with young people. “When I was younger, I was obsessed with the Olsen twins. I watched everything they did, so I always go back to the time when I did that, but when it happens to you, it’s weird. I just watched their movies every day. I got to meet them when they were 14. I was modelling for their clothing line and they came to set one day and I was like, ‘Oh my God!’”
Having a younger fan base has its perks: for one, their loyalty is often unflagging, and that can lead to future success for different projects. But, when Benson landed the lead role in Harmony Korine’s R-rated thriller Spring Breakers, she found that her underage admirers might have actually hurt the film at the box office. “I went to see Spring Breakers in theatres, all these teenagers were lining up with How to Train Your Dragon tickets, because they couldn’t get into Spring Breakers. Me, Selena and Vanessa all have a younger fan base, so there were a lot of younger people sneaking in, so How to Train Your Dragon made a lot from us.
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Samsung wasted no time this year. With Mobile World Congress pushed back six or so months, the hardware maker hitched its wagon to the tail end of the CES whirlwind — though unlike its press conference earlier in the week, the company is very much on its own for the latest Unpacked.
And why not? In spite of broader issues with the mobile industry (certainly not helped by the COVID-19 pandemic), the Galaxy line is still very much a draw. People may not be as eager to buy a flagship as they were a couple of years ago, but when they do, it’s frequently a Samsung device.
I tend to save pricing for the end of these kinds of posts, but it really bears mention up front. Samsung’s launching three key iterations of the S21 line today: the S21, S21+ and S21 Ultra. Those are priced at $799, $999 and $1,119 respectively, here in the States. That’s down from $999, $1,199 and $1,399 last year. While it’s true we’re still very much in the flagship price range here, a $200 drop is not insignificant.
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Rather, it points to a very conscious correction — one that goes beyond simply introducing a budget flagship or flagship lite to appease that segment of the market. Smartphone sales were already lagging before the pandemic, and the routine pricing of flagships above $1,000 was a considerable piece of that. Obviously the pandemic has only exacerbated the situation for myriad reasons, and 5G, which was expected to lead to a sales rebound didn’t move the needle nearly as much as anticipated.
Of course, 5G was a headliner feature for Samsung all the way back in 2019. The company has been all-in with the Galaxy line for a while now, and frankly, the feature is just kind of expected now. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Samsung is going back to imaging as a key differentiator.
Here’s what Mobile head TM Roh has to say about the new handsets:
We are living in a mobile-first world, and with so many of us working remotely and spending more time at home, we wanted to deliver a smartphone experience that meets the rigorous multimedia demands of our continuously changing routines. We also recognize the importance of choice, especially now, and that’s why the Galaxy S21 series gives you the freedom to choose the best device for your style and needs.
I absolutely understand why companies continue to go the “in these challenging times” route with these announcements, though I will say that, for the most part, the notion of device upgrades as a response to COVID-19 is really overstated here, beyond the aforementioned price drop. And I suspect that, with fewer people leaving the house these days, the dream of a smartphone as a primary productivity device has probably dampened of late.
Still, the S21 Ultra, in particular, has one very important trick up its sleeve. Samsung is further blurring the line between the Galaxy S and Note by making the Ultra S Pen compatible. The experience will vary to some degree, but users will be able to use the stylus to write and draw on the handset. It’s sold separately and there’s no in-device housing for the pen, though Samsung will be offering a case that will hold it. It will be interesting to see if the company goes out of its way to distinguish the new Note, but it seems equally possible that the lines are simply converging. After all, the S Pen has long been the key distinguishing factor.
The devices also get Ultra-wideband capabilities, which will bring a number of capabilities, including the ability to unlock car doors and AR messages to find lost items. More detail on that soon, no doubt.
Visually, the biggest change here is the camera housing, which gets streamlined. I’m holding off judgement until I see it in person, but the new “Contour Cut” housing feels a bit more brutalist or perhaps industrial than the prior generation. The device also drops the expandable memory. A strong argument could be made that current on-board storage has made microSD redundant for many or most, but it was always a nice little differentiator.
The company has also removed the headphones charging adapter from the box, a move the world saw coming when the company deleted ads ribbing Apple from dropping accessories over what it said were environmental concerns. It’s the headphone jack all over again, because history rhymes.
Hardware-wise, the triple-camera situation is similar. On the S21 and 21+ you get a 12-megapixel ultrawide, 12-megapixel wide and 64-megapixel telephoto with 30x space zoom. The Ultra bumps that up to a 12-megapixel ultra-wide, 108-megapixel wide and a dual-telephoto lens system with 3x and 10x optical zoom. That’s the first time Samsung has offered a dual-telephoto setup. The Ultra also sports improved low-light shooting, courtesy of the Bright Night sensor.
Software imaging updates include the ability to pull stills from 8K shooting, improved image stabilization and new modes like “Vlogger view,” which shoots from the front and rear camera simultaneously. I see limited use for that last bit in my own life, but I’m sure folks will find a creative use for it.
The screens measure in at 6.1, 6.7 and 6.8 inches (that last one is a decrease from the S20 Ultra’s 6.9 inches). All sport a 120Hz refresh rate that adapts based on usage. The phones also get the new Eye Comfort Shield, which reduces blue light as the day goes on.
Here in the States, all three phones sport the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 888. The S21 and S21+ start at 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage, while the Ultra starts at 12GB and 256GB. The batteries are pretty healthy, clocking in at 4000, 4800 and 5000mAh. They’re all available for pre-order now and start shipping January 29.
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Buying expertise doesn’t mean you should forego thinking strategically about how to get the most out of the cloud.
Michael Bathon (CIO) 11 December, 2019 11:07
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When it comes to cloud, in many cases it’s best to leave it to the experts.
Many organisations in Australia can’t hope to match the economies of scale and expertise that exist within companies such as Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure which, between them, have built more than 200 data centres across the planet. These are resources you could never hope to field on your own.
But simply using their footprint and cloud expertise doesn’t mean you should forego thinking strategically about how to get to the cloud and what you put in it.
The shift to the cloud is one that could alter the very way your organisation operates. Get it right, and the payoff can be immense. Get pushed into the wrong decision, however, and the fall can be equally great.
Why rush to the cloud?
The sudden rush to ‘cloudify’ operations certainly has an airline magazine management feel to it: a CEO was at the airport and read about this fantastic new thing called cloud… and that’s now the company strategy, and everyone needs to scramble to implement it.
Those CIOs who can persuade the overeager CEO to take a more methodical approach to an implementation of this magnitude can be best placed to benefit most from the cloud shift.
For one, it’s simply not true that everything in the cloud is automatically better and cheaper and more innovative. While it’s certainly possible to find efficiencies, it’s also possible to overprovision on capacity or see services balloon out of control as they’ve been set to scale automatically without effective monitoring.
In some instances, an organisation could sign a contract with a big-name software-as-a-service (SaaS) vendor and lock themselves into many years of expensive maintenance and support.
It’s incumbent on you, as the methodical approach taker, to do your due diligence on the different cloud offerings available, particularly when it comes to cloud-based applications.
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Some applications lend themselves better to the cloud than others, such as collaboration and CRM – in these instances it’s easy to see why SaaS has become so popular.
When it comes moving entire enterprise resource planning systems (ERPs) to a SaaS cloud versus doing a lift and shift to the public cloud, however, the benefits may not be as easily seen.
These systems, prior to the cloud, probably took months of stress, tears and cash to operationalise and customise, and may serve as the backbone of the organisation since it went live.
There can be risk in moving this kind of operation into the cloud as it involves potentially throwing away years of work on customised applications, not to mention potentially going through the whole process of operationalisation once again.
Yet ERP vendors will continue to push a move into their SaaS cloud as the next stage in digital transformation and my advice in these instances is “buyer beware.”
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Organisations may find that, once the move is completed, business-critical applications such as payroll automation or supply chain management software do not have parity in a SaaS cloud environment, or at least not yet.
Some companies may move because they think their ERP implementation was so poor the first time around that a move to the cloud offers an opportunity to “start fresh”.
Others are happy but think cloud is a way to build new revenue streams, and they can begin running their existing ERPs (customisations and all) on cloud infrastructure and gradually weave in other cloud services.
Neither is without merit, but the need to remain methodical is imperative to the future of the business and its bottom line.
How to slow down in the rush
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IT leaders who are not prepared to go all-in on the cloud as their transformation strategy may have to explain themselves because “everybody knows” the cloud is the future.
But there are ways to keep the pace methodical.
For one, IT leaders should properly explain their concerns, even down to understanding the budget impact. They need to know, and be able to explain, how and why you do not have to move everything to the cloud, and that the move should not be rushed.
Two, look outside the vendor sphere – the big unicorn operations may huff and puff and try to blow the house towards the cloud with talk of expiring support deadlines. If they do, it could be time to look elsewhere for maintenance and support.
Finally, if and when you do move, find ways to bring your existing business-critical applications and data with you, not just into “the cloud” but into the right cloud. Microsoft, Amazon and Google are investing in creating next generation data management tools – and you can take advantage of them.
You may feel pressure from all fronts to make a quick, decisive move. But ultimately you probably want to make the best decision, not just the quick one.
So slow down, pick your spots and start taking advantage of the cloud technologies with the potential to make the greatest business impact and make the move you think is best for the organisation. Ultimately, you’re the expert here and you can take all the time you need.
Michael Bathon is vice president, cloud services at Rimini Street.
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The Cumbria boroughs where coronavirus infection rates are rising
Coronavirus infection rates have risen across every Cumbria district, according to the latest Public Health England data.
Barrow-in-Furness continues to have the highest rate in the county with 40 new cases recorded for the seven days to September 20.
The area remains on ‘red alert’ status with an infection rate of 59.7 per 100,000 people.
Any area with a rate over 50 is put into the highest government category.
The infection rates have also risen in Eden, Copeland, Allerdale, Carlisle and South Lakeland but all five areas stay on ‘green’ alert status with rates below 25.
It come as a further 30 new cases were recorded across Cumbria in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of positive tests since the start of the pandemic to 3,346.
The figures are based on tests carried out in laboratories (pillar one of the Government’s testing programme) and in the wider community (pillar two). The rate is expressed as the number of new cases per 100,000 people.
Data for the most recent three days (September 21-23) has been excluded as it is incomplete and likely to be revised.
Bolton continues to record the highest rate in England with 612 new cases were recorded in the seven days to September 20 – the equivalent of 212.8 per 100,000 people.
It is the only area in England with an infection rate over 200.
The list has been calculated by the PA news agency and is based on Public Health England data published on September 23 on the Government’s coronavirus dashboard.
Full list of Cumbria’s latest infection rates:
From left to right, it reads: name of local authority; rate of new cases in the seven days to September 20; number (in brackets) of new cases recorded in the seven days to September 20; rate of new cases in the seven days to September 13; number (in brackets) of new cases recorded in the seven days to September 13.
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Carlisle 13.8 (15), 6.4 (7) ↑
New coronavirus cases in the UK have soared to 6,178 in the past 24 hours – the third highest ever daily total, the latest official figures released today show.
Six months to the day since lockdown began in the UK, there have now been 409,729 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the UK as of today.
There have been a further 37 deaths in the UK from Covid-19 in the past 24 hours – the exact same number as was reported yesterday – bringing the official death toll across all settings to 41,862.
The latest figures from the Department of Health today includes cases in hospitals, care homes and the community.
The latest figures come as Boris Johnson this week announced a raft of new lockdown measures for England as ministers battle to curb spiralling infection rates – and avoid a full second lockdown.
Restrictions could be in place for up to six months unless significant progress is made in developing a coronavirus vaccine.
Pubs, bars and restaurants in England will be required to close by 10pm from Thursday evening with the hospitality sector be restricted to table service by law.
Retail staff will now have to wear masks from Monday – not just customers, while staff and customers at all indoor hospitality venues – such as pubs and restaurants – will be ordered to wear masks by law, except when they are sat at a table to eat or drink.
The Prime Minister scrapped his drive to get millions of people back to the workplace, telling people to work from home if they can.
The number of people able to attend wedding ceremonies and receptions will be slashed from 30 to 15.
You can still meet your family and friends as long as you obey the “rule of six”. Gatherings of multiple households are allowed indoors and outdoors – as long as there are no more than six people.
The penalty for failing to wear a mask or breaking the rule of six will double to £200 for a first offence. People who fail to self isolate can be fined up to £10,000.
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Bengaluru, Dec 02 (ANI): Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa virtually inaugurated phase-3 clinical trials of ‘Covaxin’ (COVID-19 vaccine), which is being developed by Bharat Biotech in collaboration with Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on December 02. The trials will be conducted at Vydehi Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre in Bengaluru. Karnataka Health Minister Sudhakar K said, “It’s a happy day for Karnataka as ICMR gave permission to Vydehi institution. I think they are doing clinical trial on about 1600-1800 people in Karnataka. Chief Minister has officially announced and given first dose today through Vydehi institution. I hope 3rd phase will be very successful and will be devoid of adverse effects on any individual.” ‘Covaxin’ is India’s indigenous COVID-19 vaccine and has been approved for phase-3 clinical trials on 26,000 participants in over 25 centres across India.
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Big bus to battle cancer
August 1, 2008 By WRN Contributor
It's the American Cancer Society's Cancer Action Network's Fight Back Express. ACS spokeswoman Allison Miller says it a big bus touring nationwide that is a "rolling petition." People can sign the bus or write stories of their experience with cancer.
The bus has been on the road since May 4th and eventually arrives in Washington DC as a message to lawmakers to fund cancer research, prevention and treatment.
"What was once a War on Cancer now looks more like a retreat." says the ACS in a press release.
The advocate says the federal government is the largest funding source of cancer research but for several years the funding has been stagnant or not kept up with inflation.
Although Miller applauds the steps taken by Wisconsin such as the recent cigarette tax hike, she says its time for the state to pass a smoking ban to protect "all workers from the dangers of secondhand smoke."
The ACS bus is in Fond Du Lac Friday and will be passing through several Wisconsin cities including Madison, Milwaukee and Hudson.
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Wisconsin Natural Resources Board approves land swap with Walker donor
August 3, 2016 By Andrew Beckett
The state Natural Resources Board has signed-off on a controversial land swap agreement with a major donor to Governor Scott Walker.
The deal gives Elizabeth Uihlein about 1.75 acres of lakefront property in Manitowish Waters, in exchange for over 42.7 acres of lake-access property in the Northern Highland-American Legion State Forest. The state had originally proposed to sell the land to Uihlein last fall, which is adjacent to an 11-unit condo development she owns that currently lacks lake access. However, the sale was dropped amid criticism that it was being sold without bids for less than its appraised value.
Uihlein and her husband have donated millions to Republican candidates, including donations directed at Walker’s presidential bid.
During a meeting in Ashland Wednesday, board member Dr. Fred Prehn called the exchange a good deal for the state. “This 42 acres, I walked it…it’s not junk land. So…in this particular case, the state is much better than when they asked us to sell it for cash last year.”
The board unanimously approved the deal Wednesday, despite concerns raised by tribal officials and several thousand people who signed a petition. Critics say the deal could limit public access to Rest Lake and goes against state land stewardship policies.
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Merrill Lynch & Co. named former Bear Stearns senior managing director John R. Tyers as president of its Broadcort clearing services group, as Wall Street banks continue to pick up personnel from Bear following its acquisition by J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.
Most recently, Mr. Tyers served as co-head of Bear's broker-dealer and investment-advisor services, the later he helped launch.
In his new role at Broadcort, Mr. Tyers will report to managing director Michael Perry, who leads Merrill's corporate and investment-services division in the firm's global wealth management group.
Since last summer's subprime-mortgage meltdown, Merrill has changed CEOs, posted massive losses, written down more than $30 billion and is in the process of cutting 4,000 jobs. Still, the company is optimistic that it will return to profitability in the third and fourth quarters and make money for the year overall.
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This is the former Koppers "drip track area." The possible Alachua County fairgrounds site was for decades a wood treatment facility. (Courtesy of Alachua County)
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Alachua County Is Considering Cabot-Koppers Superfund Site For New Fairgrounds
By Ethan Magoc
June 28, 2018 Government and politics
The Cabot-Koppers site in Gainesville was first placed on the Environmental Protection Agency’s toxic Superfund site list in 1983.
Thirty-five years later, it’s on a new list — that of potential locations for the new Alachua County fairgrounds.
County officials within the past month approached the property owner, Beazer East, about the idea of leasing or selling the 86-acre parcel just north of NW 23rd Avenue. Mitchell Brourman is senior environmental manager for Beazer, which purchased Koppers in 1988 and took over the site’s environmental liability. Brourman said converting the Koppers parcel into a fairgrounds is “an exciting opportunity and a good future land use” for what was a wood treating site from 1916 through 2009.
“But if we can get a deal done? That’s a whole different element,” he said. “We’ll work on it.”
The fairgrounds would be bordered by NW 23rd Avenue on the south (right edge of this photo) and feature bike trails, athletic fields, an indoor track, UF/IFAS extension office, and agriculture facility, along with hundreds of parking spaces. (Rendering courtesy of Alachua County)
The idea is still nascent. County staff on Thursday night explained the initial site plan to the Stephen Foster Neighborhood Association at Parkview Baptist Church. James Harriott, deputy county manager, first identified the Koppers site as a fairgrounds possibility and led the neighborhood discussion.
The dozen or so neighbors in attendance voted for the group’s president — Robert Pearce — to write a letter to county commissioners, expressing the neighborhood’s support of the fairgrounds’ potential nearby relocation.
The commission will consider it and at least two others during a 1:30 p.m. meeting on July 11.
Sean Johnson was among those voting in favor before leaving to put his three-year-old son to bed.
“With raising a kid in the city, I’m always looking for new parks and more places to have trails, and I think it would incorporate into the city great,” he said.
A bike path would wind its way through or around the property, with Depot Park-style retention ponds helping to control stormwater runoff. Michael Selvester and Mandy Millam bought their house three years ago and would welcome additional flood control.
They also expressed reservations about the fairgrounds’ livestock agriculture facility being across a drainage pond from their home in the 3100 block of NW 4th Terrace, but Harriott said there’s time to adjust the site plan.
“They’re clearly very early in the stages and willing to take some input from us,” Millam said, “which is really comforting.”
Beazer is scheduled to complete surface-level remediation sometime in 2020, but Brourman said groundwater monitoring and treatment would have to continue for years afterward. It’s a process he said his company takes seriously.
“We operated a facility there for almost 100 years, and you can’t just erase industrial activity like that just by closing the sale or leasing a piece of property to someone else,” Brourman said. “Our obligations run way deeper than that.”
Click image to enlarge. The pink boxes indicate properties that required soil remediation near the Koppers site. (Courtesy of Alachua County)
The remediation has been lengthy and multifaceted. For example, in 2013, nearby homeowners had a foot of contaminated topsoil replaced.
A 2007 presentation on the county website listed chemicals of concern such as naphthalene, benzene, and carcinogenic aromatic chemicals. Even if the county were to help to continue the cleanup while building the fairgrounds, Brourman said, “I just don’t want to paint the illusion that we could sell off the property and we’d be walking away from our obligations… It’s just a lot more complicated than that.”
University of Florida professor Ruth Steiner, an expert in urban planning, had a group of students this past year study the site’s future uses. While a fairgrounds idea never came up, they did propose either an amphitheater or even as “a food-based venue.”
“Throughout that discussion,” Steiner said, “we noted you wouldn’t want to use the soil there to grow the crops.” Still, she said, grass would grow on the site.
The county had originally planned the fairgrounds for a 100-acre parcel just east of Waldo Road north of the airport; that plan fell apart last month when county staff determined wetlands had spread too far across the property to make the $43 million project viable there.
“Particularly after Hurricane Irma, it probably wasn’t going to work,” Chris Bird, Alachua County’s environmental protection director, said. “It was flood prone, and there were going to be problems with trying to develop that site.”
County commissioners asked for other possible locations. The Cabot-Koppers is one of three right now, according to assistant county manager Gina Peebles. Others could materialize in July when the county commission hears from municipalities like Newberry who would want the fairgrounds nearby.
The Superfund site seems like “a really good match,” Bird said, if Beazer can finish its surface remediation while the county develops a new fairgrounds that would include an indoor running track among its facilities.
Compared to the possibility of Beazer selling the property for other uses under the property’s industrial zoning status — a junkyard or recycling center, for example — Pearce said county management or ownership would be “fantastic.”
“We don’t know what the hell (a different landowner) might want to do with it,” he said. “It’s sometimes a lot better to deal with the devil you know than the devil you don’t know.”
Beazer in 2017 paid about $17,000 in property taxes for the parcel, which the county would no longer be able to collect if it purchased it. Harriott said the county and Beazer representatives have also talked briefly about a 50 or 100-year lease, so the company and not the county would retain liability for the environmental cleanup.
Rusty Kestle, an EPA scientist based in Atlanta, said the agency is in favor of the proposal so far.
This is the former Koppers south lagoon area. (Courtesy of Alachua County)
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Given All Eigenvalues and Eigenspaces, Compute a Matrix Product
Problem 189
Let $C$ be a $4 \times 4$ matrix with all eigenvalues $\lambda=2, -1$ and eigensapces
\[E_2=\Span\left \{\quad \begin{bmatrix}
1 \\
\end{bmatrix} \quad\right \} \text{ and } E_{-1}=\Span\left \{ \quad\begin{bmatrix}
\end{bmatrix},\quad \begin{bmatrix}
\end{bmatrix} \quad\right\}.\]
Calculate $C^4 \mathbf{u}$ for $\mathbf{u}=\begin{bmatrix}
\end{bmatrix}$ if possible. Explain why if it is not possible!
(The Ohio State University Linear Algebra Exam Problem)
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Is the Determinant of a Matrix Additive?
Let $A$ and $B$ be $n\times n$ matrices, where $n$ is an integer greater than $1$.
Is it true that
\[\det(A+B)=\det(A)+\det(B)?\] If so, then give a proof. If not, then give a counterexample.
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Eigenvalues of a Stochastic Matrix is Always Less than or Equal to 1
Let $A=(a_{ij})$ be an $n \times n$ matrix.
We say that $A=(a_{ij})$ is a right stochastic matrix if each entry $a_{ij}$ is nonnegative and the sum of the entries of each row is $1$. That is, we have
\[a_{ij}\geq 0 \quad \text{ and } \quad a_{i1}+a_{i2}+\cdots+a_{in}=1\] for $1 \leq i, j \leq n$.
Let $A=(a_{ij})$ be an $n\times n$ right stochastic matrix. Then show the following statements.
(a)The stochastic matrix $A$ has an eigenvalue $1$.
(b) The absolute value of any eigenvalue of the stochastic matrix $A$ is less than or equal to $1$.
Eigenvalues of Squared Matrix and Upper Triangular Matrix
Suppose that $A$ and $P$ are $3 \times 3$ matrices and $P$ is invertible matrix.
\[P^{-1}AP=\begin{bmatrix}
1 & 2 & 3 \\
0 &4 &5 \\
0 & 0 & 6
\end{bmatrix},\] then find all the eigenvalues of the matrix $A^2$.
Eigenvalues of a Matrix and Its Squared Matrix
Let $A$ be an $n \times n$ matrix. Suppose that the matrix $A^2$ has a real eigenvalue $\lambda>0$. Then show that either $\sqrt{\lambda}$ or $-\sqrt{\lambda}$ is an eigenvalue of the matrix $A$.
Given Eigenvectors and Eigenvalues, Compute a Matrix Product (Stanford University Exam)
Suppose that $\begin{bmatrix}
\end{bmatrix}$ is an eigenvector of a matrix $A$ corresponding to the eigenvalue $3$ and that $\begin{bmatrix}
\end{bmatrix}$ is an eigenvector of $A$ corresponding to the eigenvalue $-2$.
Compute $A^2\begin{bmatrix}
\end{bmatrix}$.
(Stanford University Linear Algebra Exam Problem)
Determine Eigenvalues, Eigenvectors, Diagonalizable From a Partial Information of a Matrix
Suppose the following information is known about a $3\times 3$ matrix $A$.
\[A\begin{bmatrix}
\end{bmatrix}=6\begin{bmatrix}
\quad
A\begin{bmatrix}
-1 \\
\end{bmatrix}, \quad
\end{bmatrix}.\]
(a) Find the eigenvalues of $A$.
(b) Find the corresponding eigenspaces.
(c) In each of the following questions, you must give a correct reason (based on the theory of eigenvalues and eigenvectors) to get full credit.
Is $A$ a diagonalizable matrix?
Is $A$ an invertible matrix?
Is $A$ an idempotent matrix?
(Johns Hopkins University Linear Algebra Exam)
Characteristic Polynomial, Eigenvalues, Diagonalization Problem (Princeton University Exam)
\[\begin{bmatrix}
(a) Find the characteristic polynomial and all the eigenvalues (real and complex) of $A$. Is $A$ diagonalizable over the complex numbers?
(b) Calculate $A^{2009}$.
(Princeton University, Linear Algebra Exam)
Idempotent Matrix and its Eigenvalues
Let $A$ be an $n \times n$ matrix. We say that $A$ is idempotent if $A^2=A$.
(a) Find a nonzero, nonidentity idempotent matrix.
(b) Show that eigenvalues of an idempotent matrix $A$ is either $0$ or $1$.
(The Ohio State University, Linear Algebra Final Exam Problem)
Find All the Values of $x$ so that a Given $3\times 3$ Matrix is Singular
Find all the values of $x$ so that the following matrix $A$ is a singular matrix.
\[A=\begin{bmatrix}
x & x^2 & 1 \\
0 & -1 & 1
Find All Values of $x$ so that a Matrix is Singular
1 & -x & 0 & 0 \\
0 &1 & -x & 0 \\
0 & 0 & 1 & -x \\
0 & 1 & 0 & -1
\end{bmatrix}\] be a $4\times 4$ matrix. Find all values of $x$ so that the matrix $A$ is singular.
Subspace of Skew-Symmetric Matrices and Its Dimension
Let $V$ be the vector space of all $2\times 2$ matrices. Let $W$ be a subset of $V$ consisting of all $2\times 2$ skew-symmetric matrices. (Recall that a matrix $A$ is skew-symmetric if $A^{\trans}=-A$.)
(a) Prove that the subset $W$ is a subspace of $V$.
(b) Find the dimension of $W$.
Vector Space of Polynomials and a Basis of Its Subspace
Let $P_2$ be the vector space of all polynomials of degree two or less.
Consider the subset in $P_2$
\[Q=\{ p_1(x), p_2(x), p_3(x), p_4(x)\},\] where
&p_1(x)=1, &p_2(x)=x^2+x+1, \\
&p_3(x)=2x^2, &p_4(x)=x^2-x+1.
(a) Use the basis $B=\{1, x, x^2\}$ of $P_2$, give the coordinate vectors of the vectors in $Q$.
(b) Find a basis of the span $\Span(Q)$ consisting of vectors in $Q$.
(c) For each vector in $Q$ which is not a basis vector you obtained in (b), express the vector as a linear combination of basis vectors.
A Matrix Representation of a Linear Transformation and Related Subspaces
Let $T:\R^4 \to \R^3$ be a linear transformation defined by
\[ T\left (\, \begin{bmatrix}
x_1 \\
x_4
\end{bmatrix} \,\right) = \begin{bmatrix}
x_1+2x_2+3x_3-x_4 \\
3x_1+5x_2+8x_3-2x_4 \\
x_1+x_2+2x_3
(a) Find a matrix $A$ such that $T(\mathbf{x})=A\mathbf{x}$.
(b) Find a basis for the null space of $T$.
(c) Find the rank of the linear transformation $T$.
Find a Basis for a Subspace of the Vector Space of $2\times 2$ Matrices
Let $V$ be the vector space of all $2\times 2$ matrices, and let the subset $S$ of $V$ be defined by $S=\{A_1, A_2, A_3, A_4\}$, where
A_1=\begin{bmatrix}
1 & 2 \\
-1 & 3
0 & -1 \\
-1 & 0 \\
1 & -10
Find a basis of the span $\Span(S)$ consisting of vectors in $S$ and find the dimension of $\Span(S)$.
A Basis for the Vector Space of Polynomials of Degree Two or Less and Coordinate Vectors
Show that the set
\[S=\{1, 1-x, 3+4x+x^2\}\] is a basis of the vector space $P_2$ of all polynomials of degree $2$ or less.
Subspaces of Symmetric, Skew-Symmetric Matrices
Let $V$ be the vector space over $\R$ consisting of all $n\times n$ real matrices for some fixed integer $n$. Prove or disprove that the following subsets of $V$ are subspaces of $V$.
(a) The set $S$ consisting of all $n\times n$ symmetric matrices.
(b) The set $T$ consisting of all $n \times n$ skew-symmetric matrices.
(c) The set $U$ consisting of all $n\times n$ nonsingular matrices.
Rank and Nullity of a Matrix, Nullity of Transpose
Let $A$ be an $m\times n$ matrix. The nullspace of $A$ is denoted by $\calN(A)$.
The dimension of the nullspace of $A$ is called the nullity of $A$.
Prove the followings.
(a) $\calN(A)=\calN(A^{\trans}A)$.
(b) $\rk(A)=\rk(A^{\trans}A)$.
Sum of Squares of Hermitian Matrices is Zero, then Hermitian Matrices Are All Zero
Let $A_1, A_2, \dots, A_m$ be $n\times n$ Hermitian matrices. Show that if
\[A_1^2+A_2^2+\cdots+A_m^2=\calO,\] where $\calO$ is the $n \times n$ zero matrix, then we have $A_i=\calO$ for each $i=1,2, \dots, m$.
How to Find the Determinant of the $3\times 3$ Matrix
Find the determinant of the matix
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101 &102 &103 \\
102 & 103 & 104
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The powers of the Waitangi Tribunal were massively, unnecessarily and unpatriotically extended by the Lange/Palmer government for no other reason than to try to buy the votes of Maoris at the following election. The ensuing monster that became the toy of a series of radical Maori members of the Tribunal – types like Ranginui Walker, “Judge” Joe Williams and Tamati Reedy – and their liberal white lackeys is now a threat not only to our economy (the higher taxes we all have to pay to fund the never-ending and ever more expensive “Treaty settlements”) but also to our rights to formerly public areas and now even to our very sovereignty as a nation.
In November, this racist, unelected, and deeply compromised, if not corrupt, Tribunal issued Stage One of its enquiry into Ngapuhi’s (Northland tribe) Treaty claim, declaring that the chiefs did NOT cede sovereignty to the Crown when they signed the Treaty in February, 1840. This is a lie. A very deliberate lie and a self-interested lie from a Tribunal that seems to see its sole function as an advocacy group for part-Maori and to extract as much as possible off the ordinary New Zealander in terms of tax dollars, public resources (e.g. the loss of the Urewera National Park to Tuhoe) and, by its new ruling, even sovereignty itself.
The Treaty of Waitangi was a very simple document and the chiefs of Northland who signed it understood its terms very well. By Article One they “cede to the Queen of England for ever the entire Sovereignty of the country”. These simple words were translated into Maori by Henry Williams, a Maori speaker, if not scholar, whom the Maoris trusted. (But the settlers didn’t!)
It is clear by the objections of some of the chiefs (quoted below) that they understood what they were signing – that they would henceforth be subject to a new and greater sovereignty and, as such, would no longer be allowed to act as independent chiefs, with their power depending on their own might and muskets. “What do we want of a Governor? We are not whites nor foreigners. We are the governor – we, the chiefs of this land of our ancestors. Do not sign this paper. If you do, you will be reduced to the condition of slaves and be compelled to break stones on the roads. Your land will be taken from you and your dignity as chiefs will be destroyed,” said the Northland chief, Rewa at the time of signing. This hostility, which did not deter other chiefs from signing, shows that the cession of sovereignty was clearly understood and the speech is quoted here (as are those that follow) solely for the purpose of showing that the chiefs knew that they were signing away whatever sovereignty they possessed for a higher purpose, viz. the ending of the terrible inter-tribal fighting.
Another chief, Kemara of the Ngatikawa, said, ” If thou stayest as Governor, then perhaps Te Kemara will be judged and condemned. Yes, indeed, and more than that – even hang by the neck….Were we to be an equality, then perhaps Te Kemara will say yes.” This chief also knew what the cession of sovereignty meant while his words clearly show that there was no “partnership” between the Crown and Maori as Key, Finlayson, The Tribunal and the Labour Party so erroneously claim, each for their own spurious and self-interested purposes. .
Yet another chief, Tareha, said, “No Governor for me – for us Native men. We, we only are the chiefs, the rulers. We will not be ruled over.. What, thou, a foreigner, up and I down! Thee high, and I Tareha, the great chief of the Ngatirehia tribes, low! No, no; never, never. ”
For the Tribunal and a few biased historians like Michael King and Claudia Orange to say a century and a half later that the poor, dumb chiefs didn’t know what they were doing is false, paternalist and racist.
Even though their culture was less advanced than that of the British, the chiefs were intelligent men in their own way and knew that, because of their endless bloody wars and tribal feuds, they could never choose a desperately needed superior sovereign among themselves and so they put themselves under British rule – a definite improvement to the rule of the musket which had hitherto prevailed.
In choosing the British, the chiefs showed their wisdom, if not their cunning, as in 1840 the British led the world in inventions, engineering, liberty, political stability and humane values, the United States at that time being nothing more than a hurriedly put together federation that was based on slavery while, from 1787 to the late nineteenth century, France teetered between dictatorship and rather bloody forms of republicanism.
“To turn around and now argue that Maori signing the Treaty of Waitangi did not understand they were surrendering their sovereignty to an entity of even higher mana defies belief and history,” wrote Ian Wishart in his excellent book, The Great Divide. (Page 165)
The cession of sovereignty, which the Treaty enabled, is the very foundation of our rights and of our very existence as a modern, democratic nation (as opposed to the undemocratic, racist and feudal option that would ensue if the Waitangi Tribunal’s recommendation should be accepted by this feckless government). Article One of the Treaty (the cession of sovereignty) has been accepted by historians, politicians, judges and even Maori themselves for at least seven generations and this nonsensical and false declaration by the Tribunal to the contrary should be seen for the crude, self-interested and nation-destroying fraud that it is.
Even more alarming is the refusal of the appeasing and unpatriotic National government to nip it in the bud by a declaration exposing this lie and upholding the sovereignty of our 175 year old nation.
Thousands of soldiers have died on the battlefield – in the Maori Wars and the two world wars – to uphold the sovereignty of New Zealand and, by failing to condemn this attack on our nation with the urgency and thoroughness that it deserves, John Key has shown yet again that he is seriously lacking in both patriotism and an understanding of our constitutional arrangements.
By attacking our sovereignty, our legal system and our long held rights in this deceitful manner, the Waitangi Tribunal and its ragtag bunch of members have shown that they are the enemy of every New Zealander except, of course, the tribal elite, of which so many of the Tribunal’s members are fully paid up subscribers.
At least the Germans in the two world wars and terrorists like Te Kooti were identifiable enemies whereas the members of this Tribunal are not only tolerated by our dim witted media but they are also showered with honours and high positions by governments both National and Labour. “National” and “Labour”, being two sides of the same racist coin, of course.
If the sovereignty of any other country was attacked by such a monstrous lie, there would be instant outrage. But in our heavily sedated, TV dominated society there was barely a murmur at this affront to our rights and our future.
That is the real problem and the members of the Tribunal who make these attacks on the rest of us know that, with mass-controlled thinking, an education system that is increasingly concerned with telling people what to think rather than how to think, and a government that is in permanent thrall to the tribal elite, it is not difficult for the Tribunal to disseminate its insidious lies and get away with it.
According to the Tribunal’s report, the chiefs believed that they were only giving Britain the right to govern its own settlers and to keep the peace but that Maori would continue to govern themselves. So, why didn’t they continue with their cannibalism, which meant so much to certain chiefs? And, if the Crown has not had the right to govern Maori, why are Maoris taking so much money from the Crown (taxpayer) in the form of pensions and benefits?
It is true that Treaty Minister, Christopher Whinlayson, reacted by saying that there was no question that the Crown had sovereignty in New Zealand and that the report doesn’t change that fact, but why was this potentially nation-smashing lie not knocked down immediately and permanently? Why allow the government to have time “to consider the report”?
And Whinlayson is not the best person to uphold the sovereignty of the nation as he is the biased and deeply compromised minister who undermined New Zealand’s sovereignty by forcing the nation into a “co-governance” agreement with the selfish and backward Tuhoe tribe in the Ureweras. Anything that Whinlayson says should be regarded with the utmost cynicism and one has to wonder if the reason why he said that the Crown does have sovereignty is that, to say otherwise, would be a denial of his own position as Treaty Minister and Attorney-General and so he would no longer be in a position to grant favours to his ex-client, Nga Tahu, and his other favoured tribes.
Among the more inane comments on this important issue was that by Haami Piripi, described as a “Te Rarawa leader”, who said, “In 1840 Europeans had 5% of New Zealand’s land mass. What logic would lead you to believe Maori would cede the other 95%?” Apart from the inaccuracy of those figures (Maori own quite a lot more than 5% – more, in fact, in proportion to their numbers than other New Zealanders), the answer is that in 1840 and for a few decades thereafter New Zealand was short of a lot of things but land was not one of them. For example, there were only about 2,000 Maoris in the whole of the South Island and so it is not surprising that they sold so much of it to the government for valuable consideration so as to get the money that they needed to develop the lands that they kept.
And, in a further dent to Mr. Piripi’s logic, the sad truth is that too many Maoris sold land for money and then drank the proceeds. By all its dodgy Treaty settlements the Waitangi Tribunal is now giving them a second bite of the cherry and in many cases they are no wiser, e.g. the purchase of expensive hospitality boxes at Hamilton’s rugby league ground out of Tainui’s Treaty settlement money so that the fat cats of that tribe can wallow in luxury while watching their favoured sport.
The current members of the Tribunal – the body that told this monstrous lie – are:
Chairperson: Wilson Isaac
Deputy Chairperson: Patrick Savage
Members: Robyn Anderson, John Baird, Angela Ballara, Tim Castle, Ronald Crosby, Miriama Evans, Aroha Harris, Richard Hill, Rawina Higgins, Sir Douglas Kidd, Hirini Moko Mead, Joanne Morris, Basil Morrison, Kihi Ngatai, Ann Parsonson, Grant Phillipson, Tamati Reedy, Tania Simpson, Monty Soutar, Paul Swain, Pou Temara, Carrie Wainwright, Keita Walker and Ranginui Walker.
Ranginui Walker, described in Twisting the Treaty as an “angry extremist” (Page 60), was formerly a member of the radical Maori activist group, Nga Tamatoa (The Young Warriors) who took inspiration from Marxist and indigenous rights groups around the world, including the gun carrying Maoist Black Panther gang.
Sir Douglas Kidd is a former National M.P. and no doubt likes the huge salary that he gets for his Tribunal membership. Tim Castle is a Wellington lawyer of European descent who is doing very nicely out of the lucrative Treaty industry. One has to wonder how he can justify being on such a mischievous and deceitful body with his membership of the law profession.
New Zealand is sliding down a slippery slope towards racism and apartheid and this lie of the Waitangi Tribunal is such a serious step on that downward path that it is incumbent on every New Zealander who cares for the future of this country to understand what it means and then tell as many people as possible of the dangers that we are facing.
Neither National nor Labour can be trusted on this issue and we have just under three years to spread the word of what is really happening to as many of our friends, relations, work colleagues, neighbours, team mates, etc, that we can. This is a war – a war for our rights, our sovereignty, our flag, our democracy – indeed for the very soul of our country. Truth must prevail over the lies of the media, of the government and of the Waitangi Tribunal. Our hard won democracy must prevail over the racism and feudalism to which the Tribunal is trying to revert us. A useful first step would be the abolition of this Tribunal which is steadily wrecking all that our ancestors and us have built in this country.
We must nail this lie as, with none of the mainstream media exposing it, it is starting to get legs. Green M.P., Catherine Delahunty, on the last day of parliament in 2014, screamed in the parliamentary chamber at the Prime Minister: “Why will not John Key accept what every high school student knows – that the chiefs did not cede sovereignty at Waitangi in 1840?” That shows how far the indoctrination of the young has gone.
For further reading on Article One of the Treaty see The Great Divide, by Ian Wishart (pages 164-194), and When Two Cultures Meet, Dr. John Robinson, Pages 101-7
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14 December, 2014 Waitangi Tribunal 1law4all, co-governance, democracy, Maori Privilege, New Zealand History, Propaganda, Racism, Treaty of Waitangi, Treaty Settlements, Waitangi Tribunal 9
9 thoughts on “The Waitangi Tribunal’s BIG LIE”
It’s corruption on a grand scale and, shockingly, with the blessing of the Government. How do we stop this juggernaut which seems virtually unstoppable? What state will our country be in by the time we are able to arrest this deceit, if ever? If only treason was still a crime. The Waitangi Tribunal is a corrupt body which should be disbanded immediately. It has long outlived its original purpose and is just mischief-making on a grand scale and costing the rest of us dearly.
John Davison says:
Every word of the above is the truth. Why is it then, that the vast majority New Zealanders continue in their apathetic slumber?. One wonders how the rest of the world, insofar as it ever pays any attention to New Zealand, concludes that New Zealand is almost free of political corruption. WHAT DRIVEL!!!
Malcolm Urlich says:
The vast majority couldn’t be bothered because their is no participation allowed on their part when it comes to the important decision making policies that past, present and future governments implement, also distractions such as all blacks games, team nz cricket games, America’s cup, reality tv programs, the internet, having a 40 hour week job where you come home too bothered to worry about political issues, heck Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman articulate this fact in their book and DVD “Manufacturing Consent”!
Ditto to all of the above comments. The rot is now starting to spread further when the Maoris now want to start charging people to have access to 90 mile beach. When will all this bullshit end – will it take a civil war to put a stop to it?
andrew wilson says:
Our small country is easily monopolised by extremism of many different kinds. We have an infiltrated media with Maori sympathisers everywhere in their ranks. We also have a media that are too scared to ask the right questions and expose the Maoridom apartheid agenda. In addition to all of this, most are uninformed lackeys like most of our politicians that need to keep up their lying BS in order to receive a salary.
Glenn G says:
What is needed is for the whole thing to be tested in the highest court possible. Would 1law4all as an entity be able to seek legal aid for such a thing? Or could an organisation be set up with the sole purpose of challenging all this BS in court using legal aid as maori do ( as far as I know )
The whole partnership thing needs to be addressed so we need to take the govt to task over the initial reinterpretation of the treaty which has lead to all manner of lies becoming the truth.
Does anyone know how Andy Oakley is getting on with his claim before the tribunal?
Win Robinson says:
It is very pleasing to receive some more well researched information being sent out to subscribers.
I am aware that producing this important material is time consuming but it is certainly worth the effort. I only hope that its distribution is increasingly expanding.
I would like to think that it is finding its way to school teachers who are following like sheep and teaching their pupils a doctrine of “Maori wonderfulness” to coin a Bob Jones phrase.
Maori culture was very primitive before the 1840s and as such has very little usefulness that it can contribute to modern New Zealand. We have all progressed since then so let’s embrace the truly worthwhile advances that have been made.
Keep up your good work; call for action and let’s eradicate this unjust , undemocratic, and regressive blight on New Zealanders aspiration for fair play.
G. Graham says:
No Country in the world has two sovereigns.
Common sense will prevail in that Queen Victoria did not have the right nor the power under English law and the Magna Carta to grant Maoris exclusive rights to the detriment of her own people.
Queen Victoria’s sovereignty was internationally recognised in 1840, Maoris are still waiting on their hard, documented evidence to prove otherwise.
Peter Pearson says:
If one is to imagine the world in 1840:
How ludicrous it is to even contemplate that the Queen Empress of the most powerful empire in the world would consider entering into a governing partnership with a tiny disconnected group of bare-arsed cannibals on the other side of the world over a small group of islands that Britain didn’t even want. Britain had recently taken possession of Terra Australis – the largest island continent in the world.
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The Baltimore police detective who was fatally shot in the line of duty last week was scheduled to testify in a federal case against officers indicted earlier this year, the Baltimore Police Department confirmed Wednesday.
The day after he died, Homicide Det. Sean Suiter, 43, was set to testify before a federal grand jury about an incident that occurred years ago involving BPD officers, Police Commissioner Kevin Davis said during a newsso conference. The officers were indicted in March and August on federal racketeering charges.
Davis also revealed that investigators believe Suiter had been killed with his own weapon, adding that there were signs of a struggle between Suiter, an 18-year veteran of the BPD, and his killer, who remains at large.
Rest In Peace Detective Sean Suiter https://t.co/NiKIdmzbADpic.twitter.com/l7vkrOKjMv
— Baltimore Police (@BaltimorePolice) November 16, 2017
At Wednesday’s news conference, Davis attempted to dispel any rumors that Suiter’s pending testimony was related to his death.
Suiter was not a target of the ongoing federal investigation of the eight officers, members of Baltimore’s elite Gun Trace Task Force, according to police.
“The BPD and the FBI do not possess any information that this incident … is part of any conspiracy,” Davis said, explaining that the fatal confrontation “appears to be nothing more than a spontaneous observation of a man behaving suspiciously and a spontaneous decision to investigate his conduct.”
Suiter, a father of five, was shot in the head on Nov. 15 after noticing a man acting suspiciously while he and his partner were investigating a 2016 triple homicide. He died one day later.
During that day’s investigation efforts, both Suiter and his partner had noticed the suspicious man in a vacant lot and approached him, Davis said Wednesday, citing surveillance camera footage reviewed by investigators.
“Upon the sound of gunfire, Detective Suiter’s partner sought cover across the street,” Davis explained. “He immediately called 911. We know this, because it is captured on private surveillance video that we have recovered.”
According to police, the ongoing investigation revealed that Suiter was shot within close range and was still holding his radio in his left hand.
Update on the investigation into the murder of Detective Sean Suiter https://t.co/bTmqqD1R4G
Davis also confirmed that Suiter’s death remains an open homicide investigation and confirmed that police don’t have a suspect in custody a week after the shooting.
Asked about the conspiracy theories surrounding Suiter’s killing, Davis said, “It certainly makes for great theater.”
“We have a police officer who’s shot and killed, and we don’t have a good description and we don’t have someone in custody and ― lo and behold ― we find out after the fact that he was scheduled to testify in front of a federal jury.”
Still, Davis added, “there’s no evidence whatsoever that Suiter’s death was related to his testimony.”
Many people remain suspicious of the timing of Suiter’s death, including Intercept columnist and prominent civil rights activist Shaun King.
This is dirty.
Baltimore Police Officer who was just murdered was scheduled to testify AGAINST other corrupt cops on the force.
I believe they had this man killed. https://t.co/hYTg2VtV1L
The Baltimore Police Department has been under public scrutiny after the Justice Department released a damning report last year that revealed the department had routinely abused Baltimore residents’ civil rights, including unconstitutional stops, frisks and arrests, using excessive force and taking a lax approach to sexual assault cases.
In April, a federal judge approved a deal made during the Obama administration between the city and the Justice Department to reform the troubled police department. The Trump administration had requested a delay on the approval of that deal, but it was rejected.
This article originally appeared on HuffPost.
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What was the first important Chicano novel and When did Jose Antonio Villarreal publish Pocho?
May 14, 2020 by Karen Hill
The first important Chicano novel was Pocho by Jose Antonio Villarreal, published in 1959.
Based partly on the author’s life, the novel tells the story of a Chicano youth growing up in California’s Santa Clara valley.
Other respected books by Mexican American authors include Bless Me, Ultima (1972) by Rudolfo Anaya; Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (1991) by Sandra Cisneros; And the Earth Did Not Part (1971) by Tomas Rivera; Hunger of Memory(1982) by Richard Rodriguez; and Bloodroot (1982) by Alma Villanueva.
Captain Kirk’s archnemesis Khan in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) was played by Mexican-born Ricardo Montalban, who also starred on the TV show “Fantasy Island.” His brother Carlos Montalban was the TV pitchman El Exigente for Savarin coffee.
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By realspin / July 19, 2014 / turntables / One comment
The Pioneer PL-12D changed everything. It was the point at which established British manufacturers such as BSR and Garrard found themselves denuded of their core market – entry-level turntables. Suddenly in 1973, for a few pounds more than the price of a clunky, idler drive Garrard SP25 mk IV you could buy a far slicker belt drive deck with Japanese build quality. Naturally, the PL-12 was an instant sales sensation, but Pioneer’s rivals weren’t going to sit back and let them get all the glory forever…
Kenwood – or Trio as it was known in the UK – replied with this, the KD-1033. It was pretty much a close, albeit slightly superior, copy of the PL-12D. It sported an independently sprung subchassis which sat on leaf springs in a modest, lightweight vinyl-wrapped chipboard plinth measuring 456x347x145mm, complete with smoked plastic dustcover. It was a two-speed design with a 4-pole synchronous motor turning a light, diecast zinc alloy platter – topped with a soft rubber mat – via a square section belt. Speed stability was good at the price; 0.06% WRMS wow and flutter was far superior to the Garrard, and a signal-to-noise ratio of (better than) 48dB made it quieter too. This matched the PL-12 point for point.
The Trio’s J-shaped, stainless steel tonearm was fractionally better though; it tracked cartridges at up to 3g, and was just about able to run reliably at half that. Compared to the SP25’s industrial feeling straight tube pick-up arm which was happier between 2.5g and 5g, this was pure exotica – the Trio’s 215mm (effective length) arm was a whole league better than the Garrard’s, and had far lower friction too. The great thing was that it was just good enough to considered real hi-fi, and that was all most buyers wanted.
What it had over the Pioneer was slickness and ease of use. It was also a little more clean and modern looking. The controls were light to the touch, the deck clicked between 33 and 45RPM crisply and there was a sense of general solidity and precision that the market hadn’t seen before. Weighing 6kg, it was sturdy enough to resist acoustic feedback well, and the compliant springing of the deck made it a little more immune to environmental vibrations than its rivals.
Sonically, the KD-1033 was sweet, smooth, stable, civilised and refined. You’d never call it punchy or dynamic, but it certainly gave a grown-up sound which people had previously never encountered from a £50 turntable. It was just a little more spacious and open sounding than the PL-12, but the differences weren’t great. The B version of 1976 added a slightly better mat and headshell, although vinylistas of the day usually replaced the stock, resonant aluminium version with an ADC magnesium one pretty sharpish, anyway. It was the big seller and from around 1977 until the advent of the Dual CS506 in 1980 it ruled the budget turntable roost in the UK.
These days, there are still plenty of Trio KD-1033s on sale, because they were big sellers and have stood the test of time well. Most have Shure M75s, Ortofon FF15Es, Grado FTEs or Audio-Technica AT-95s or 110s fitted, and are all good matches. A good modern cartridge choice would be the aforementioned AT-95E, which is still available new for under £30. The ‘B’ suffix, incidentally, stands for black finish; there was also a silver finished ‘S’ version which sold better towards the end of the deck’s life. KD-1033s sell for anything between £50 and £100 depending on condition and provenance – you can’t go far wrong with one as a starter turntable, so keep your eyes peeled!
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great appraisal and as you say,sounded better than the Pioneer PL12D – The trio tonearm had an undocumented facilty for height adjustment.
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International Joumal. of Leadership in Edncation, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 307-11. Marx, Karl; and Engels, Friederich (1952). The Communist Manifesto. Moscow: Progress Publishers, p. 40. McLaren, Peter; and Jordan, Jose Solfs (1999). "The Struggle for Liberation: La Lucha Continua! " International Joumal. of Educational Reform, vol. 8 no. 2, pp. 168-74 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The chapter on Che evolved from a paper that was originally presented at the conference Thirty Years Later: A Retrospective on Che Guevara, TwentiethCentury Utopias, and Dystopias, held at the University of California, Los Angeles, October 24-25, 1997.
20). Frei Betto noted recently: "The image of the Sierra Maestra guerrillas, with their beards, boots and olive-green uniforms, greatly contributed to the political ideals of Brazil's student movement in the 1960s. S. imperialism" (1997, p. 5). D. in Buenos Aires in 1953, with a thesis on allergies) who in some ways represented the appeal of topdrawer Argentine society-yet who became a revolutionary, an organic intellectual in the Gramscian sense, a critic of capitalism who possessed an unvarnished clarity of thought, and a guerrilla leader instrumental in bringing the corrupt Batista regime-which outnumbered his rebel force militarily by more than a hundred to one-to its knees (Markee, 1997) and who finally stayed the hand of Washington during the Bay of Pigs invasion (what Cubans call the invasion of "Playa Gir6n, Bahia Cochinos," after the beach on the Bay of Pigs where the mercenaries landed).
This sentiment was not lost on those who were despoiled the most by the putrid power of capitalism: The campesinos paraded in front of the body, in single file, amid an awesome silence. When the army tried to control access, an avalanche of people broke through the cordon of soldiers. That night, candles for Che were lit for the first time in the small holdings around the little town. A saint was being hom, a secular saint of the poor. (Taibo, 1997, p. 565) The image of the corpse of Che stretched out on a washtub in Vallegrande, so mystically rendered by photographer Freddy Alborta, appears bathed in a transcendental aura, giving Che a luminescent presence among the sallow visages of the soldiers, journalists, photographers, and officers present.
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Author Bará, S.
Title Variations on a classical theme: On the formal relationship between magnitudes per square arcsecond and luminance Type Journal Article
Year 2017 Publication International Journal of Sustainable Lighting Abbreviated Journal Intl J of Sustainable Lighting
Volume 19 Issue 2 Pages 77
Keywords Instrumentation; skyglow; luminance; magnitude; sky brigthness; photometry
Abstract The formal link between magnitudes per square arcsecond and luminance is discussed in this paper. Directly related to the human visual system, luminance is defined in terms of the spectral radiance of the source, weighted by the CIE V(l) luminous efficiency function, and scaled by the 683 lm/W luminous efficacy constant. In consequence, any exact and spectrum-independent relationship between luminance and magnitudes per square arcsecond requires that the last ones be measured precisely in the CIE V(l) band. The luminance value corresponding to mVC=0 (zero-point of the CIE V(l) magnitude scale) depends on the reference source chosen for the definition of the magnitude system. Using absolute AB magnitudes, the zero point luminance of the CIE V(l) photometric band is 10.96 x 104 cd·m-2.
Address Departamento de Física Aplicada, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain; salva.bara(at)usc.es
Language English Summary Language English Original Title
Call Number IDA @ john @ Serial 2162
Author Bará, S.; Escofet, J.
Title On lamps, walls, and eyes: The spectral radiance field and the evaluation of light pollution indoors Type Journal Article
Year 2018 Publication Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer Abbreviated Journal J of Quant Spect and Rad Trans
Volume 205 Issue Pages 267-277
Keywords Instrumentation; Light pollution; Artificial light at night; Light field; Radiance field; Radiometry; Photometry
Abstract Light plays a key role in the regulation of different physiological processes, through several visual and non-visual retinal phototransduction channels whose basic features are being unveiled by recent research. The growing body of evidence on the significance of these effects has sparked a renewed interest in the determination of the light field at the entrance pupil of the eye in indoor spaces. Since photic interactions are strongly wavelength-dependent, a significant effort is being devoted to assess the relative merits of the spectra of the different types of light sources available for use at home and in the workplace. The spectral content of the light reaching the observer eyes in indoor spaces, however, does not depend exclusively on the sources: it is partially modulated by the spectral reflectance of the walls and surrounding surfaces, through the multiple reflections of the light beams along all possible paths from the source to the observer. This modulation can modify significantly the non-visual photic inputs that would be produced by the lamps alone, and opens the way for controlling—to a certain extent—the subject's exposure to different regions of the optical spectrum. In this work we evaluate the expected magnitude of this effect and we show that, for factorizable sources, the spectral modulation can be conveniently described in terms of a set of effective filter-like functions that provide useful insights for lighting design and light pollution assessment. The radiance field also provides a suitable bridge between indoor and outdoor light pollution studies.
Address Área de Óptica, Departamento de Física Aplicada, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain; salva.bara(at)usc.es
Publisher Elsevier Place of Publication Editor
Author Zeng, X.; Shao, X.; Qiu, S.; Ma, L.; Gao, C.; Li, C.
Title Stability Monitoring of the VIIRS Day/Night Band over Dome C with a Lunar Irradiance Model and BRDF Correction Type Journal Article
Year 2018 Publication Remote Sensing Abbreviated Journal Remote Sensing
Keywords Instrumentation; Remote Sensing
Abstract The unique feature of the Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) day/night band (DNB) is its ability to take quantitative measurements of low-light scenes at night. In order to monitor the stability of the high gain stage (HGS) of the DNB, nighttime observations over the Dome C site under moonlight are analyzed in this study. The Miller and Turner 2009 (MT2009) lunar irradiance model has been used to simulate lunar illumination over Dome C. However, the MT2009 model does not differentiate the waxing and waning lunar phases. In this paper, the MT-SWC (SeaWiFS Corrected) lunar irradiance model differentiating the waxing and waning lunar phases is derived by correcting the MT2009 model using lunar observations made by the Sea-Viewing Wide Field-of-View Sensor (SeaWiFS). In addition, a top of atmosphere (TOA) bi-directional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) model during nighttime over Dome C is developed to remove the angular dependence from the nighttime TOA reflectance. The long-term stability monitoring of the DNB high-gain stage (HGS) reveals a lower reflectance factor in 2012 in comparison to the following years, which can be traced back to the change in relative spectral response (RSR) of National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA’s) Interface Data Processing Segment (IDPS) VIIRS DNB in April 2013. It also shows the radiometric stability of DNB data, with long-term stability of less than 1.58% over the periods from 2013 to 2016. This method can be used to monitor the radiometric stability of other low-light observing sensors using vicarious calibration sites under moonlight illumination.
Author Jechow, A.; Ribas, S.J.; Domingo, R.C.; Hölker, F.; Kolláth, Z.; Kyba, C.C.M.
Title Tracking the dynamics of skyglow with differential photometry using a digital camera with fisheye lens Type Journal Article
Year 2018 Publication Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer Abbreviated Journal Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer
Keywords Skyglow; Instrumentation
Abstract rtificial skyglow is dynamic due to changing atmospheric conditions and the switching on and off of artificial lights throughout the night. Street lights as well as the ornamental illumination of historical sites and buildings are sometimes switched off at a certain time to save energy. Ornamental lights in particular are often directed upwards, and can therefore have a major contribution towards brightening of the night sky. Here we use differential photometry to investigate the change in night sky brightness and illuminance during an automated regular switch-off of ornamental light in the town of Balaguer and an organized switch-off of all public lights in the village of Àger, both near Montsec Astronomical Park in Spain. The sites were observed during two nights with clear and cloudy conditions using a DSLR camera and a fisheye lens. A time series of images makes it possible to track changes in lighting conditions and sky brightness simultaneously. During the clear night, the ornamental lights in Balaguer contribute over 20% of the skyglow at zenith at the observational site. Furthermore, we are able to track very small changes in the ground illuminance on a cloudy night near Àger.
Author Tamir, R.; Lerner, A.; Haspel, C.; Dubinsky, Z.; Iluz, D.
Title The spectral and spatial distribution of light pollution in the waters of the northern Gulf of Aqaba (Eilat) Type Journal Article
Year 2017 Publication Scientific Reports Abbreviated Journal Sci Rep
Volume 7 Issue Pages 42329
Keywords Measurement; Instrumentation; Remote Sensing
Abstract The urbanization of the shores of the Gulf of Aqaba has exposed the marine environment there, including unique fringing coral reefs, to strong anthropogenic light sources. Here we present the first in situ measurements of artificial nighttime light under water in such an ecosystem, with irradiance measured in 12 wavelength bands, at 19 measurement stations spread over 44 square km, and at 30 depths down to 30-m depth. At 1-m depth, we find downwelling irradiance values that vary from 4.6 x 10(-4) muW cm(-2) nm(-1) 500 m from the city to 1 x 10(-6) muW cm(-2) nm(-1) in the center of the gulf (9.5 km from the city) in the yellow channel (589-nm wavelength) and from 1.3 x 10(-4) muW cm(-2 )nm(-1) to 4.3 x 10(-5) muW cm(-2) nm(-1) in the blue channel (443-nm wavelength). Down to 10-m depth, we find downwelling irradiance values that vary from 1 x 10(-6) muW cm(-2 )nm(-1) to 4.6 x 10(-4) muW cm(-2) nm(-1) in the yellow channel and from 2.6 x 10(-5) muW cm(-2) nm(-1) to 1.3 x 10(-4) muW cm(-2) nm(-1) in the blue channel, and we even detected a signal at 30-m depth. This irradiance could influence such biological processes as the tuning of circadian clocks, the synchronization of coral spawning, recruitment and competition, vertical migration of demersal plankton, feeding patterns, and prey/predator visual interactions.
Address School of Agriculture and Environmental Studies, Beit Berl College, Kfar Saba, Israel
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ARTEK Recordings
Reviews of CD 2
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1. Classics Today
American/Italian composer Nicolas Flagello was born in New York, but spent a good part of his career as conductor of the Rome Symphony Orchestra. His music reflects his extensive experience as a conductor, being superbly scored and structured with a sure hand. Stylistically, it belongs squarely in the American neo-classical tradition of composers like Piston, Giannini (Flagello's teacher), Persichetti, Creston, and Menin (all of whom were also first generation Americans of Italian origin). The music is appealing, propulsive, and very passionate, rising to climaxes of real intensity and excitement. The two piano concertos are marvelously written for the soloist: they sound like great fun to play, and they contain many moments of pure magic (such as the way the Second Concerto's opening movement melts into the ensuing Andante). Credendum, for violin and orchestra, would make a great concert companion to Chausson's Poeme, and it's very well played by Elmar Oliveira. In fact, pianist Tatjana Rankovich is no slouch either. Her playing in the two concertos has real glitter and Romantic sweep. Toss in the two charming overtures, and the result is a first rate tribute to a very fine, neglected composer.
- David Hurwitz
2. Fanfare
FLAGELLO Overture Burlesca, Piano Concertos: No. 2: No. 3. Credendum, for Violin and Orchestra. A Goldoni Overture David Amos, cond; Slovak PO, Kosice; Tatjana Rankovich (pn); Elmar Oliveira (vn) ARTEK AR 0002-2 (72:00)
Back at mid century it was customary to say that composers then writing in a neo-Romantic idiom had been born after their time. But now that the jerry-built house of serialism and its spinoffs has come tumbling down, one can safely affirm without risk of demurral that an American like Giannini pupil Nicolas Flagello (1928-94) can be said to have been born too early. If Flagello were a contemporary of today’s born-again postmodernists who have rediscovered tonality (out of a mix of genuine conversion and opportunistic bandwagon-hopping, one can speculate), he would be acclaimed alongside all the Danielpours and Pickers and Kernises and Daughtertys who are now riding high on the tide of tuneful traditionalism. The question would still be: Do any of these late bloomers do their Rachmaninov-Sam Barber thing with the degree of developmental enterprise and emotional authenticity of a Flagello? This listener’s response would be a roof-clattering “No!”
This reissue—on a more professional label than the original deletion-mad Vox—of five topflight Flagello pieces (reviewed by this writer back in the mid 90s) includes two riveting piano concertos, two rousing overtures, and a ravishing one-movement quasiconcerto for violin. It is strongly recommended to all recent converts to the new neo-Romantic creed. They’ll hear it done with greater force and imagination by someone who never turned his back on his innate impulses and creative tenets. Go out and explore for yourself. Paul A. Snook
Woody Allen was only spelling out the obvious when he made Gershwin’s music—the Piano Concerto foremost—cognate with the Manhattan skyline and the glittering, glamorous dynamism of American life. But what happens when this fundamentally optimistic vision is overtaken by an awareness of the mean streets beneath the neon shimmer, survival beset by anxiety and killing speed, the dreadlocks of precarious love, the grotesquerie of the glamour, the grief in the glitter? The upshot is the music of Nicolas Flagello, and its quintessence makes the works on this disc—a stunning coup de theatre of premiere recordings produced by Fanfare’s Walter Simmons. Originally issued as Vox 7521 to critical acclaim (see Fanfare 19:6), the word was hardly out before it was abruptly deleted. Well, it’s back—with the original fine annotations and the concerto movements newly tracked—and Artek vows to keep it permanently available, as well it should, for it’s an American classic. Tatjana Rankovich not only studied with the composer, she plays the demanding piano parts with winning pizzazz. Elmar Oliveira—need it be said?—is a violinist of the first rank. And the Kosiee band laces into Flagello’s rich scoring like a bunch of Brooklyn boys on a spree. If the Credendum sends the violinist on a mantic descent into a strange personal underworld, it is balanced by the overtures, compounded of an Italianate bizarrerie (not unworthy of Busoni in his Chianti moods), angst and sheer scintillation. Above all, Flagello’s piano concertos are among the most persuasively successful post-Rachmaninov essays in the genre—substantial, gripping, truculent, and the more compelling for having wrought lyrically arched triumph against the grain of the life we know. And that’s to say that this is music to live with, returning, so to speak, compound interest. Immediately transparent sound within a spacious aural frame. Splendid! And not merely recommended enthusiastically but urged upon you. Adrian Corleonis
4. Classical Music on the Web - CD Reviews www.musicweb.uk.net
NICOLAS FLAGELLO (1928-1994)
Overture Burlesca (1952) Piano Concerto No 2 (1956) Credendum for violin and orchestra (1973) A Goldoni Overture (1967) Piano Concerto No 3 (1959)
Tatjana Rankovich (piano) Elmar Oliveira (violin) Slovak PO/David Amos rec Kosice June 1995 ARTEK AR-0002-2 67.44
Flagello's part in the 'Italian stream' in American classical music has received scant attention. He is a New Yorker through and through but a Puccinian passion dominates rather than jazz, the blues or sardonic frivolity.
Mention of verismo operatic high jinks may be misleading. There is a touch of 'blood and thunder' but the 'bel canto' strain is more relevant. So it is a case of less Puccini and more early Malipiero, Respighi and Martucci.
Credendum while essentially a singing work is a 'frosted glass'. If you know the Arthur Bliss Violin Concerto in its less exuberant episodes you will know what to expect. It is a matter of accent. The voice, though, is still locked deep in the bedrock of romantic tonality. Credendum (like the identically named orchestral work by William Schuman) refers to a statement of faith and this is a serious work of reflection with some rolling horn-lofted climaxes recalling the Aulis Sallinen First Symphony. If the cradled tenderness of the Walton and Barber violin concertos hits you towards the end (11.03) the soft gong strokes at the close provide an 'earth ' for the gleamingly spun introspection of the violin in the closing measures.
The Goldoni Overture written as a 'vorspiel' to Giannini's final opera is not entirely the 'glitter and skitter' item you might have expected. Howard Hanson is a beneficent influence on the brass writing. The work has some of the zippy levity of Walton's Portsmouth Point - a character it shares with the Overture Burlesca which launches like an emotionally clipped version of the scherzo of the Moeran symphony.
As the notes point out, the Third Piano Concerto is separated from No 2 by a decade. It is a steelier statement but the shapely grandeur of the climax at 7.10 leaves us in no doubt of Flagello's allegiance to the romantic impulse also much in evidence in the guileless slightly doom-ridden peak of the middle movement. With its tubular bells the movement strikes a note familiar from Alwyn's Symphony No. 5 Hydriotaphia - all cortège, funereal triumph and Sibelian resolve. The granitic finale lacks articulation. Its ghoulish mesmerising tone is straight out of Liszt's Totentanz and Herrmann's Concerto Macabre.
The earlier piano concerto splices the heroics of the Arthur Bliss Piano Concerto with a Prokofievian élan. There is a frank tuneful impulse at work among the soliloquising and the barn-storming crescendi. I can imagine Flagello having enjoyed the Bortkiewicz Piano Concertos 2 and 3 as much as Bortkiewicz might have enjoyed Flagello's. Rachmaninov was also an influence - listen to 4.48 in the allegro giusto. In the second movement we encounter cooling and leaf touched woodwind writing with the eerie bell tones of Shostakovich's Second Piano Concerto. Blissy heroism, now sulphur-dosed, rears up again for the finale. As in the earlier concerto Rankovitch is beyond negative criticism though the orchestra's intonation is sometimes, at the very least, suspect.
Now Artek, let's have the first and fourth concertos on a single disc and with Rankovich as the soloist.
A strong recommendation for anyone who, having started exploration with the Naxos American Classics series, would like to delve deeper into 20th Century Romantic Americana.
Rob Barnett
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Home>Music> Juicy J Shares Release Date & Artwork For “Highly Intoxicated”
Juicy J Shares Release Date & Artwork For “Highly Intoxicated”
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Juicy J's upcoming mixtape, "Highly Intoxicated," arrives only 3 days from now.
While he hasn't found that massive club record or commercial success this year, that doesn't mean Juicy J hasn't been putting in work. In fact, the Memphis veteran has been low-key having himself a pretty big year. From the countless singles he's dropped & been featured on, including “Aint Nothing” with Wiz, “Gimme Gimme” with Slim Jxmmi, “Up” with Desiigner, to dropping off a 10-track mixtape back in May called Gas Face, which featured guest appearances from Lil Wayne, Chris Brown, & Quavo, Juicy has been treating fans to plenty of new music to keep their playlists busy, and thankfully he's not slowing down anytime soon either.
With his long awaited Rubba Band Business: The Album expected to arrive later in the year, Juicy recently announced that he will be dropping off a new mixtape first called Highly Intoxicated. After sharing the official track list a couple weeks ago, the T.G.O.D rapper decided to come through today and reveal some more details about the forthcoming tape, including the release date & artwork.
Dropping next week (September 18th), Highly Intoxicated will contain 17 tracks in total & feature an impressive lineup of guest appearances, including XXXTENTACION, A$AP Rocky, Cardi B, Wiz Khalifa, Rick Ross, Smokepurpp, Chris Brown, & PNB Rock. Meanwhile, production will be handled entirely by the New Orleans duo The $UICIDE BOY$.
“I decided to bring it back to ’96. Highly Intoxicated 9/18/17 Prod By Suicide Boys,” Juicy captioned his only Instagram post.
Peep the announcement & official artwork (below) and be sure to check back in a few days for the full tape. What collab are you most excited about hearing?
1) Intro
2) Highly Intoxicated
3) Showtime (feat. XXXTENTACION)
4) That Ain't You
5) Dat What I Thought
7) Freaky (feat. A$AP Rocky)
8) Dope Fiend
9) Dusse & Ciroc (feat. Smokepurpp)
10) Big Tymer (Short)
11) Kamasutra (feat. Cardi B)
12) Call My Lawyer
13) Up There ^ ^ ^
14) Watch Money Fall (feat. Rick Ross & Project Pat)
15) Leanin Remix (feat. Chris Brown & PnB Rock)
16) Always High (feat. Wiz Khalifa)
17) Highly Intoxicated Outro
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Why Tire Crr matters...
...and why you need to look at BOTH the aero drag of a wheel/tire combination AND the tire rolling resistance to help determine what is "fastest" (i.e. Low Crr can make up for a lot of aero "sins")
(update 04/14/13: Added Michelin Pro4 Service Course to chart after roller testing. See chart and discussion below)
Five years ago, Damon Rinard (when he was working at Trek) made a post to the Slowtwitch triathlon forum where he described calculating a rough average of aero drag combined with rolling resistance. The data he used was from some wind tunnel testing he had done with various tires on the same rim (a Bontrager ACC - 50mm deep) and he combined this with the expected "on road" rolling resistance from roller testing. He did this because he found that different tires made a large difference in the aerodynamic drag of the wheel/tire system, and that simply choosing tires based on low rolling resistance OR low aero drag performance might not be the right approach.
I thought that was a neat approach and reverse engineered some of his data and expanded the idea to look at the effects of varying wind speed. In order to do so, I needed to scale the aero drag (taken at 30mph tunnel speed) to different apparent wind speeds using the ratio of V^2/(30mph^2) - since drag force varies with the square of wind velocity. That value was then summed with the rolling resistance force, which is constant, and then the total combined aero and rolling drag was plotted as a function of expected apparent wind speed.
Interestingly, when Trek/Bontrager released the R4 Aero tire a few years later (after Damon had left Trek to work for Vroomen/White Design) they included a plot very similar to the one I had created back in 2008:
To use that chart, you need to have an idea of what your general "race speed" is going to be and then figure out what the maximum apparent wind speed (i.e. the vector sum of the ambient wind speed at wheel level and the bike ground speed) you'll encounter. Then you can see what the average total force you'll be expecting from a particular combination. Now then, that's talking about the retarding force...if you want to know the power required for the different combinations, or the power differences between combinations, then you need to multiply the drag force value by the ground speed to get the rate of doing work (i.e. power) on that total drag force. Make sense?
One of the main takeaways from that exercise above I got was that looking at JUST aero drag or JUST Crr wasn't telling the whole story. It's very easy to "waste" a wheel/tire combination's low aero drag by using a slow rolling tire...and vice versa. But, the other takeaway I got is that really low Crr can "make up" for a lot of less than ideal aero drag performance
Well, for the plot above, the aero drag component was taken as just a simple average of the 5, 10, and 15 degree yaw angle drags. After seeing the plot below last fall (taken from the Mavic material given out at the CXR80 tire/wheel system introduction), I realized this type of estimate could be updated using a weighted average instead of a straight average. The weighting would be from the expected % time spent at each yaw angle. Obviously, we want to choose a combination based on it's performance under the conditions we expect to mostly see in our races. If we don't see large yaw angles very often, it might not be worth it to worry about differences in performance at those higher yaw angles between the equipment choices we are contemplating.
According to Mavic, the data taken above is from actual measurements (they built a "wind vane" type rig and attached it to a bike) from a large number of rides under varying conditons and courses. Although it may not represent the actual yaw angle distribution for any one particular ride (those will likely be skewed one direction or the other, depending on the course and conditions) but it does represent what one would expect over a large number of rides. As such, it should be a good tool for determining a good "all around" wheel/tire system choice.
Now then, what we need to update things further is some good aero data showing the drags at various yaw angles for different tire/wheel combinations. It would be really helpful if the data happened to be for tires which I've already roller tested and have an idea of the predicted "on road" Crr.
Well, we're in luck. The guys at Flo wheels went to the A2 tunnel last week and did just that on their new Flo30 wheel. They tested the Michelin Pro4 Service Course, the Conti GP4000S, the Bontrager R4 Aero, and the Vittoria Open Corsa EVO Tri. The last 2 were tires that I actually loaned them after Chris Thornham had contacted me asking if I knew of a good place to find the Bontrager tires. I happened to have a nearly new one handy and also offered to loan one of my Vittoria tires as well. Here's the blog post describing their tunnel visit and the aero data they took: Flo30 Aero
As can be seen in their data, the GP4000S was the clear winner aerodynamically, with the R4 Aero close behind it. The one tire that doesn't look too hot is the Vittoria. Although it stays fairly close to the other tires up to ~7.5 degrees of yaw angle, after that the drag goes way up. However, we know from my roller testing (Crr chart) that it's Crr is slightly lower than the other 2 tires, so it might be able to make up for that, especially at lower yaw angles.
So, let's take a look. What is shown below is the result of taking a weighted average (using the Mavic probabilities for the weighting) of the drag values reported for the 3 tires that I have Crr data on (I'm working on getting a Michelin to roller test as well) combined with the Crr of each tire. I've used the values of Newtons for the drag force (since it's an actual force unit, as opposed to grams) so that the drag force results can be simply multiplied by the expected ground speed (in meters/second) to quickly calculate the power (W). (If you want to convert the values to grams, then just divide by 9.81 m/s - gravity - and multiply by 1000)
(Note: the above chart assumes a wheel loading of 38kg and represents a single front wheel)
There's some interesting things going on in that chart. To understand what's going on there, it's helpful to realize that the "steepness" of each curve is controlled by the aero drag (it varies with the square of the wind velocity), while where the line sits vertically in the chart is controlled by the rolling resistance values (a constant force).
Despite the apparently poor showing of the Vittoria EVO Tri tire aerodynamically, at lower expected apparent wind speeds it actually performs slightly better than the other 2 tires shown; up until ~27 km/hr where it's curve crosses the GP4000S curve. As compared to the R4 Aero tire, that crossover doesn't happen until expected apparent wind speeds of ~35 km/hr. At the apparent wind speeds that I expect to see during my TT'ing (~45km/hr) the GP4000S is obviously the leader, with the R4 Aero in second, but the Vittoria still has a predicted average combined drag force that's only .21N higher than the GP4000S. At the expected ground speed of ~42km/hr (i.e. 11.7 m/s), that results in a total power difference of just 2.5W. That's really not a very large amount, especially considering how much worse the Vittoria appeared to perform aerodynamically.
Now then, you might be asking "why is that?" Simply put, a lot of it has to do with the fact that the yaw angles where the largest differences in aero performance occur are also the yaw angles that are weighted less in the aero drag average due to their lower probability of being experienced. Another interesting thing is that the differences in Crr between the Vittoria tire and the other 2 isn't very large (all within .0004 of each other), but that's enough to overcome a seemingly significantly worse aero performance.
So far we've been talking about this subject in terms of races like TTs and triathlon bike legs where the front wheel is seeing "free air"...but, what about other types of bike racing? Well, when you're in a group and drafting, the apparent wind speed is going to be lower, along with the fact that the yaw angle distribution will narrow as well...and thus, that makes the Crr component all that more important. If you ever find yourself in the situation of riding up a false flat in a group while using poor rolling tires, you'll understand what I'm talking about here. Rolling resistance is actually a higher priority than wheel aerodynamics in road racing, in my humble opinion.
For one last plot, I took the data from the rest of the Flo wheels that were subsequently tested with the GP4000S tire. That plot is shown below, and as expected at lower expected apparent wind speeds, the wheels are closer together in performance than with higher expected apparent wind speed.
There we are...I hope that helps to understand some of the tradeoffs involved with choosing tires and wheels for cycling. Of course, there are other properties further involved in these sorts of tradeoffs, such as durability and "grip", but those other properties are tough to combine into a chart like the above...and so are left up to the user to weigh separately.
The guys at Flo were nice enough to send me the Michelin Pro4 Service Course tire used in the aero testing above and so I got a chance to run it on the rollers. The resultant Crr was .0043. They also sent the Continental GP4000S used in their testing and it rolled identically to my own version of that tire at .0034. Using that, I was able to update the Total Drag Force chart to include the Michelin on the Flo 30. The interesting thing about the curve for the Michelin is that despite it's aerodynamics being fairly close to the GP4000S and the Bontrager R4 Aero (especially with the yaw weighting) on the Total Drag Force chart it NEVER overcomes the "hit" it takes on rolling resistance, even out to expected apparent wind speeds of 60kph. Once again, the importance of Crr comes to the fore...
Labels: Power, Quarq, testing, Tires
Brilliant stuff Tom. Thanks for taking the time to put this together.
Jon Thornham
FLO Cycling
Steve C April 9, 2013 at 3:26 AM
Fantastic write up, Tom. Excellent resource.
djconnel April 9, 2013 at 7:41 AM
Nice! First, that distribution plot looks a lot like one [url=http://djconnel.blogspot.com/2011/03/yaw-angle-variable-wind-speed-and.html]I estimated based on simple assumptions[/url], so that's nice. But second: there should be a third component, which is how important a particular yaw angle is (you've already pointed out in a road race situation yaw may be less than it is for a solo rider, so I'm talking actual yaw here). For example, if you can barely control your bike in a 20 deg yaw, then either that angle becomes less important (power isn't rate-limiting) or perhaps more important (if stall angle affects stability). Of course, facing such uncertainty, the best approach is generally the simplest, which is what you've done.
Tom Anhalt April 9, 2013 at 5:27 PM
Yeah Dan, I knew that Mavic chart was close to the one you had estimated, so that made me feel a bit better about using it.
Taking it "the next step" is a bit more difficult...I was thinking that analysis like this needs to be combined with your "speed for a given power" modeling attempts ;-)
Cody Beals April 9, 2013 at 9:35 AM
Very helpful and informative. Thanks
Mike Hardy April 15, 2013 at 12:16 PM
I love this post, it's a great way to look at things as the combined system is what we're living with on race day obviously.
However what I don't understand is how your GP4000S Crr is higher than what I understood to be the canonical source for Crr information (http://www.biketechreview.com/tires_old/images/AFM_tire_testing_rev9.pdf) nor do I understand how e.g. the other tires (R4Aero / Vittoria) were in different Crr rank order vs that GP4000S.
Did Conti change the compound? Or is there a (perhaps scientifically interesting) methodology difference between the tests, that could be useful in making a decision?
The methodology and equations (Al Morrison -the originator of that listing - actually uses equations I originally set out for his calculations) between that source and mine are nearly identical. The major differences are the roller material (Al's are plastic while mine are aluminum) and the fact that the Crr value in my table includes the 1.5x "smooth to rough" conversion, while Al's values are for smooth, flat surfaces.
If you take the .00307 Crr value that Al measured a few years ago for the GP4000S (when the black chili compound first was added) and multiply it by 1.5, it would end up coming in at .0056 on my chart. Apparently...and I've confirmed the Crr value I measured with a second tire...Continental has been making the tire faster over time. Most likely this has been done with subtle tweaks to the thickness in various areas. To the hand, the newer tires feel a bit more flexible (indicating a thinner coating on the sidewalls) plus the newer tires weigh out at ~200-210g, while the older tires were in the ~230-250g range.
As a cross check between the 2 lists, take a look at the Bontrager RXL Pro 23C entry. Al shows a Crr of .00244, which when multiplied by 1.5X results in an "on road" Crr = .0037. I measured a well used model of the same tire at .0035. Doing the same with the Specialized S-Works Mondo Open 23C, you'll find Al's compensated value at .0035, while my measurement is .0034.
Bontrager Aerowing TT 19C: .0041 vs. .0042
etc., etc.
Greg Ostrin April 20, 2013 at 9:17 AM
Tom can you tell me if I'm reading that new chart correctly (the one with the PR4). I did some calculations and at 40km/hr, it's about a 5w difference between the GP4000 and the PR4?
Tom Anhalt April 21, 2013 at 10:47 AM
Greg, at what expected apparent wind speed and expected ground speed?
Greg Ostrin May 3, 2013 at 2:45 PM
That's a good question. No wind, non-draft triathlon, 40k/hr, so ground speed is 40k/hr too?
Tom Anhalt May 3, 2013 at 2:57 PM
In that case, yes...I get ~6W difference to go the same speed on average.
MarktheMan August 1, 2013 at 1:21 PM
Very interesting stuff. I love reading your blog. Always something interesting to catch my eye.
Manuel Ordiñana August 21, 2013 at 10:13 AM
friend can you pass me a excel for virtual elevation robert chung? Thanks!
Rodrigo November 15, 2014 at 8:19 PM
Just did a test of my own on the michelin pro4: http://teamrodrigo.com/2014/11/15/battle-of-tires-which-one-is-best-in-the-real-world/
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John Roc November 27, 2020 at 7:24 AM
This is awesome!! I’ve always enjoyed reading your blog.
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By Jessie Forand/ECHO This brave soul is Logan Fox. She made some new friends at ECHO on Saturday in these Madagascar hissing co...
Wildlife Encounters at MudFest
By Jessie Forand/ECHO
This brave soul is Logan Fox. She made some new friends at ECHO on Saturday in these Madagascar hissing cockroaches. After learning about the difference in appearance of male and female varieties, she offered herself up as playground for the critters.
Thanks to Logan, we now know that cockroaches may bite, as is the case with any animal, but they DO NOT eat children.
Here are some of the other exciting animals we were introduced to by Wildlife Ecounters:
Giant Argentine Tegu Lizard
These lizards are a non-native invasive species, not unlike the plants and animals that have made their way into Lake Champlain.
Named Monster, this creature is a South American native but related to the Gila monster and the Mexican beaded lizard.
The tegu's skin is both smooth and bumpy - kind of like mud! - and is similar to humans' fingernails.
Tegu lizards use mud to look for food, they find bugs to eat, dig and burrow, and use the dirty stuff to treat skin illnesses and wounds.
Monster was rescued by the Upper Valley Reptile Group after living in a fish tank in Vermont. He was underweight and sick.
African Giant Bullfrog:
"Jelly Belly" the bullfrog is one year old and weighs less than 1 lb. When he's done growing, he could weigh up to 10 lbs.
Living in sub-Saharan Africa, these frogs rely on the rainy season to create a more temporary version of Lake Champlain. Once the land is flooded, mothers lay between 2,000 and 4,000 eggs, then leave. The fathers guard the eggs
As the "lake" begins to evaporate, the fathers must dig trenches to make sure the eggs don't dry up and their growing tadpoles stay safe.
These guys use the mud in another way, too. Before it dries up after the rainy season, they dig themselves down into the mud, which then dries around them. They stay in these muddy enclosures for 6-9 months, waiting for the next rainy season.
Sulcata Tortoise:
This guy's name is "Frodo." Wildlife Encounter's Derek Small shared mud-tastic story: The creatures are known for digging in the mud, creating burrows and constantly just throwing dirt around. A while ago Frodo decided to go into a previously dug burrow and was hiding out there. When Small noticed the overnight temperatures, expected to dip below zero, he knew Frodo couldn't stay outside underground.
Eventually Megan, a high school senior who works for the company, and very tall, Small said, climbed in after the tortoise to pull it out!
When she emerged, Megan was nice and muddy.
Mini Pig:
Last but not least, we have all heard about pigs loving mud. They use the dirty stuff to protect their skin and as a sunscreen. And they're pretty cute!
See more photos here and keep an eye out for Wildlife Encounters' next ECHO visit!
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Chileno Bay Resort Successfully Welcomes First Residents
Chileno Bay Resort & Residences recently greeted its first new owners to their beachfront homes in Los Cabos, Mexico. Ninety percent of phase one villas were sold or under contract before opening day, allowing phase two to progress quicker than anticipated this spring.
The residences feature a boutique luxury resort, managed by Auberge Resorts, that opened February 1, with 29 guest rooms ranging from 760 to 885 square feet of interior and exterior space. Additionally, 33 expansive three- and four-bedroom contemporary beach villas range from 2,750 to 3,100 square feet of indoor living space. Various units offer outdoor showers, expansive terraces, and soaking tubs.
Phase two is expected to be completed in fall 2018 and will offer 28 villas and 12 hotel rooms and suites, four of which are 1,000-square-foot one-bedroom suites. The new residences will allow buyers smaller options, with two-bedroom units starting from $1,495,000 and penthouses at $3,000,00.
“Following a very successful year of sales that significantly exceeded our expectations, we are thrilled to accelerate the plans and break ground on phase two in just a few months,” said Mark Cooley, Partner, SV Capital Partners, developers of the resort. “Since opening last month, we have been getting great feedback on the contemporary designed homes and families are enjoying Chileno Bay’s modern lifestyle and amenities.
Chileno Bay Resorts & Residences offers 22-acres to its guests and is the only year-round swimmable beach in Los Cabos. Part of the prestigious 1,200-acre resort community of Chileno Bay, a Discovery Land Company development, the resort is comprised of a private beach club, Tom Fazio-designed 18-hole golf course, residences and more.
Contemporary accommodations feature an open concept with floor-to-ceiling windows and doors that open to ample private terraces. Ground-floor villas all have private pools, while some upper-level villas have Jacuzzis on the open-air balconies. All residential villas are equipped with indoor-outdoor gourmet kitchens featuring Wolf and Subzero appliances, and garden, pool or ocean views. Two four-bedroom Sky Villas offer large private rooftop terraces with a private pool, extended living area and bar.
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For more information on visiting or homeownership opportunities at Chileno Bay Resort & Residences, please visit chilenobay.aubergeresorts.com or chilenobayresidences.com.
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Rape,Female spy and Prostitution : Assad’s secret weapon
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There is an old dictum that says sex is a weapon of war. The Syrian Civil War is ongoing proof of this dictum. Very little is written about sexual and gender politics in Syria. We occasionally hear about the prevalence of rape, but not often. These stories usually (but not exclusively), involve regime soldiers or security forces abusing women suspected of being with the opposition.
As the Syrian regime attempts to disguise these crimes, the media has become a central battlefield for the regime. Syrian TV and social media are attempting to spread the message that the regime is an adamant protector of women’s rights. Much media attention has been paid to the president’s wife Asma al-Assad as a “beautiful, modern, westernized, liberated and uncovered” woman.
The Syrian media consistently showcases “attractive, liberated, and uncovered” women arguing on behalf of the regime. Sex in Syria is a psychological weapon. To truly understand this, one must juxtapose the image of these “liberated women” next to the “bearded” rebels. A narrative emerges based on these contrasting images. These are three media through which the Syrian regime channels this message.
1. Syrian Girl
There are many pro-regime commentators on social media, but Mimi Al-Laham, or Syrian Girl, has caused an online sensation. She has appeared regularly on Russian Today, Press TV, and on channels in Australia. She has appeared most frequently on Alex Jones’s online show and runs her own channel on YouTube. The videos she posts on YouTube receive upwards of 163,000 views. On Google, her name followed by the word “hot” returns just under 50,000 results. Mimi, who is believed to be the granddaughter of a government minister, uses her channel to promote conspiracy theories, pro-regime, and anti-opposition rhetoric.
2. Syrian Television News
BBC Arabic News’s documentary “Inside Syria: Reporting for Al-Assad” involved the network sending a reporter to Al-Ikhbariyya station. The network is famous for embedding reporters in the Syrian army on the battlefront. Particularly, they send “young, attractive, and uncovered” female reporters to the front lines. In fact, while up to 60% of Syrian women wear a hijab, almost none of the female personalities on Syrian state-owned T.V. station seem to. This is no accident as the regime is demonstrating its commitment to liberalism and women’s rights. A woman wearing the hijab represents the opposition to Assad and Ba’athism, according to the state’s ideology. An unveiled women represents the “ideals” of Ba’athism, as it symbolizes “progress, independence and modernity.”
3. Female Soldiers
There are only a handful of female soldiers in the regime’s army, but this has not stopped the propaganda machine from churning out these images. Whether its Russia Today broadcasting female soldiers shouting pro-Assad slogans, or Syrian Music channels broadcasting femalesingers dressed in military overalls singing about the army, the image of the pro-regimist woman is of a fighter who will “resist” oppositionist “oppression.” When juxtaposed with the image of “Al-Qaeda,” opposition creates a powerful narrative. These narratives are false. The regime has committed brutal crimes against women and children. The idea behind these images is to reverse reality, and that is why they is so dangerous.
The Syrian National Coalition called on the international community and human Rights organizations to take act in releasing the opinion prisoners.
Assad’s forces have used sexual violence to torture men, women, and boys detained during the current conflict. Witnesses and victims told Human Rights Watch that soldiers and pro-government armed militias have sexually abused women and girls.
Many of the former detainees told Human Rights Watch that they were imprisoned because of their political activism, including for attending protests. In other cases, the reason for the detention was unclear but detainees suffered the same abusive tactics.
“Syrian security forces have used sexual violence to humiliate and degrade detainees with complete impunity,” Human Rights Watch said. “The assaults are not limited to detention facilities – government forces and pro-Assad Shabiha militia members have also sexually assaulted women and girls during home raids and residential sweeps.”
Rights groups and opposition activists have long claimed that civilians have been detained arbitrarily, tortured, and sometimes have disappeared since the uprising against Assad’s regime began. HRW’s findings appear to be one of the largest finds of physical evidence bolstering those claims to date.
“The documents, prison cells, interrogation rooms, and torture devices we saw in the government’s security facilities are consistent with the torture former detainees have described to us,” said Nadim Houry, deputy Middle East director for HRW.
The 27-month-long conflict has claimed more than 100,000 lives, the Human Rights Observatory announced Wednesday. The war has also driven 1.7 million refugees to seek shelter in neighboring countries.
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The Euler fluid equations, which can be expressed as the vector equation (-?pr)-g=(v??)v+?v ?t, are shown to be missing three important terms and to contain a simplistic version of a fourth. Whenever the fluid is significantly affected by an external thrust and by either a gravitational field or a set of gravitational fields, the Euler fluid equations must be replaced by ( ) ( ) ( 2 ) ( ) ( ) e e e e e -?p r +??2 f-3 p3rr??R- M G r R-Fr= v??v+(?v ?t, where two of the three missing terms are combined into the first term times the unit vector e R (which points radially away from the effective center of gravity), ? f ? is numerically the degrees of freedom of the fluid, and ? e r ? is the distance from the effective center of gravity to the differential volume. The third missing term, F, is the non-gravitational force. The simplistic gravitational acceleration term, g, is replaced by a more general expression that takes into account the ubiquitous nature of gravity. The Euler fluid equations are used in the derivation of the Navier-Stokes equations, so the foregoing developments cause these equations to change.
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Hydrogeology of Burkina Faso
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Africa Groundwater Atlas >> Hydrogeology by country >> Hydrogeology of Burkina Faso
4.2 Sedimentary - Intergranular Flow
4.3 Sedimentary - Fracture Flow
4.4 Crystalline Basement
5.1 Groundwater quantity
5.2 Groundwater quality
6.1 Groundwater use
6.2 Groundwater management
6.3 Transboundary aquifers
7.1 Geology: key references
7.2 Hydrogeology: key references
Youssouf Koutoube, Université de Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Kirsty Upton, Brighid Ó Dochartaigh, British Geological Survey, UK
Map of Burkina Faso (For more information on the datasets used in the map see the geography resources section)
Much of Burkina Faso is a largely flat plain with an average altitude of 400 m above sea level, which is cut into by valleys and flood plains.
Estimated Population in 2013* 16,934,839
Rural Population (% of total) (2013)* 71.8%
Total Surface Area* 273,600 sq km
Agricultural Land (% of total area) (2012)* 44.1%
Capital City Ouagadougou
Border Countries Benin, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Mali, Niger, Togo
Annual Freshwater Withdrawal (2013)* 818 Million cubic metres
Annual Freshwater Withdrawal for Agriculture (2013)* 51.4%
Annual Freshwater Withdrawal for Domestic Use (2013)* 45.9%
Annual Freshwater Withdrawal for Industry (2013)* 2.7%
Rural Population with Access to Improved Water Source (2012)* 75.8%
Urban Population with Access to Improved Water Source (2012)* 97.5%
* Source: World Bank
Burkina Faso can be divided into three climate zones, with rainfall decreasing from south to north. There is a distinct dry season during winter months, and wet season during summer months.
Koppen Geiger Climate Zones
Average Annual Precipitation
Rainfall time-series and graphs of monthly average rainfall and temperature for each individual climate zone can be found on the Burkino Faso Climate Page.
For further detail on the climate datasets used see the climate resources section.
The centre, south and west of Burkina Faso are drained by tributaries of the Volta system, including the Nakambe, Mouhoun and Comoé rivers. The north and east are drained by rivers of the Niger basin. Many of the smaller rivers are ephemeral, drying during the dry season. There are a number of natural lakes. Many valleys are dammed to store wet season rainfall: in 2001 there were approximately 2000 reservoirs with a total storage volume estimated at 2.66 billion cubic metres (Obuobie and Barry 2012)
Surface Water Map of Burkina Faso (For more information on the datasets used in the map see the surface water resources section)
Soil Map of Burkina Faso (For map key and more information on the datasets used in the map see the soil resources section)
Land Cover Map of Burkina Faso (For map key and more information on the datasets used in the map see the land cover resources section)
This section provides a summary of the geology of Burkina Faso. More detail can be found in the references listed at the bottom of this page. Many of these references can be accessed through the Africa Groundwater Literature Archive. The geology map on this page shows a simplified version of the geology at a national scale (see the Geology resources page for more details). The map is available to download as a shapefile (.shp) for use in GIS packages.
Key Formations Period Lithology Structure
Alluvium Quaternary Detrital deposits: dominantly alluvium in river valleys; some lake deposits.
Laterite Quaternary Iron-rich, hardened tropical soil
Continental Terminal
Cenozoic The Continental Terminal sequence unconformably overlies Proterozoic to Palaeozoic sedimentary dolomites and other formations in the Gondo plain in the north of the country. It consists largely of fluviatile and lacustrine deposits. In the northwest, it comprises a layer of alternating clays and sands 40 m thick; and in the easy, a conglomerate-sandstone succession (Castaing et al. 2003b).
Proterozoic to Palaeozoic (meta)sedimentary
Bandiagara and Koutiala sandstones, Toun schists, Bobo sandstone, Gobinangou Sandstone Proterozoic (Late Precambrian) to Palaeozoic These are consolidated, indurated sedimentary rocks, sometimes metamorphosed, which unconformably overlie Basement rocks. They occur along the northwest and north, and in the extreme southeast of the country. They include sandstone-quartzites and conglomerates at the base, which are overlain by largely sandstone formations, interbedded with schists and rare dolomitic limestones in the west of the country. At the top of the sequence are mixed formations including argillaceous schists; quartzitic sandstones; interbedded limestones and dolomites; breccias; and marbled conglomerates. In the southeast are sandstone facies (eg the Gobinangau Sandstone) with pelitic schists and calcareous and phosphated strata.
Birimian volcano-sedimentary and plutonic rocks; Eburnean granitoid rocks. Precambrian Basement complext of Archaean and Birimian age, consisting of belts of Birimian volcano-sedimentary and plutonic rocks intruded by large batholiths of Eburnean granitoid rocks. It includes basalt, andesite, rhyolite, rhyodacite, dacite, felsic tuffs, gabbro, diorite, granites, gneisses, shales, schists, quartzites and greenstones (Castaing et al., 2003b). Two major NNE trending sinistral shear zones divide the Basement rocks into three domains: eastern, central and western, with variably NE or N to NNE trending structural features (Castaing et al., 2003b).
This section provides a summary of the hydrogeology of the main aquifers in Burkina Faso. More information is available in the references listed at the bottom of this page. Many of these references can be accessed through the Africa Groundwater Literature Archive. The hydrogeology map on this page shows a simplified version of the type and productivity of the main aquifers at a national scale (see the Aquifer properties resource page for more details). The map is available to download as a shapefile (.shp) for use in GIS packages.
Geology is the main control on aquifer productivity and groundwater potential.
Named Aquifers General Description Water quantity issues Water quality issues Recharge
Alluvium Alluvial deposits in river valleys and floodplains can have high permeability and storage capacity, where they are dominated by coarse grained sand and gravel. Alluvium can be up to 60 m thick. Where they are underlain by permeable bedrock - eg sandstones or weathered basement - groundwater in the alluvial deposits is often in hydraulic continuity with groundwater in the underlying bedrock aquifer. It may also be in hydraulic continuity with river water in nearby rivers. The water table in alluvium is often shallow, less than 10 m below the ground surface (Obuobie and Barry 2012).
Alluvial deposits are not continuous and therefore form local aquifers. They can be exploited by shallow wells and by deeper boreholes. Recharge is by direct rainfall infiltration and leakage from rivers, and is strongly seasonal.
Sedimentary - Intergranular Flow
Continental Terminal This aquifer has variable lithology and irregular structure. The upper layers comprise mudstones and sandstones. Sandstones form aquifer layers, which are generally in hydaulic continuity with the underlying older dolomitic limestone. Where they are overlain by unconsolidated alluvial aquifers, groundwater in the sandstone can be in hydraulic continuity with groundwater in the alluvium. The aquifer is largely unconfined.
The Continental Terminal aquifer ranges in thickness from 10 m thick at its edges, up to 100 m thick in the centre of the aquifer in the plain of Gondo.
The water table can range from 10 m to more than 90 m below the ground surface. Borehole depths typically range from 40 m to 120 m.
Relatively high yields of up to 10 m³/hour may be obtainable from deep boreholes into sandstone layers (Obuobie and Barry 2012).
Recharge is by direct rainfall infiltration and is strongly seasonal.
Sedimentary - Fracture Flow
Proterozoic to Palaeozoic (meta)sedimentary rocks Sandstones, dolomites and limestones form generally low productivity aquifer layers, which range from 50 to 1000 m thick. Dolomitic limestones form the best aquifers (BGS 2002). The permeability of the upper aquifer layers has sometimes been enhanced by weathering (Obuobie and Barry 2012). In some places they can be overlain by up to 60 m of alluvium, and groundwater is often in hydraulic continuity with the unconfined upper bedrock aquifer layers, with the water table ranging from 10 m to 60 m below the ground surface. The upper aquifer layers are typically unconfined.
Lower aquifer formations can be confined if overlain by dolerite intrusions or clayey layer. In confined aquifer layers, borehole water levels are typically less than 5 m below the ground surface, and in some cases are artesian.
In the Bobo Diaoulasso area, fractured and weathered schists and dolomites form a 10-30 m thick weathered aquifer, in which average borehole yields of 0.5 to 5 m³/hour and transmissivity values of between approximately 15 and 50 m²/day have been recorded (Obuobie and Barry 2012).
The Gres and Intracambrian aquifers in the Bobo Dioulasso area are thought to be particularly productive aquifers. They are thought to be around 100 m thick and to have a transmissivity of approximately 120 to 415 m²/day and a specific capacity of 1 m³/hour/m (Obuobie and Barry 2012).
The aquifer is used for water supply in rural and urban areas (70% of abstraction from the aquifer); and also for mineral water and other commercial/industrial use (25%) and other uses. Most recharge to the aquifer is thought to occur from seasonal rainfall infiltration by preferential flow through fractures (Obuobie and Barry 2012).
Granites, gneisses, schists, quartzites and greenstones. Basement rocks form discontinous aquifers. Groundwater storage and flow occur only where the rock is fractured and/or weathered.
The upper part of the aquifer can be weathered to a depth of 10 m to 80 m. This weathered zone may be in hydraulic continuity with overlying alluvial aquifers (see Unconsolidated, above). The water table in the weathered zone can lie between 5 m and 30 m below the ground surface. Boreholes are typically from 40 m to 80 m deep. Groundwater in the weathered zone aquifer is typically unconfined.
Fractured bedrock, sometimes underlying and associated with, weathered zones, also forms an aquifer in the basement rocks. Fractured aquifer zones can range from 10 m to 80 m thick, and the water table can range from 20 m to 60 m below the ground surface. Boreholes abstracting from this aquifer are between 40 and 150 m deep.
Average borehole yields are around 2 m³/hour (Obuobie and Barry 2012).
Groundwater from crystalline basement aquifers is dominantly used for rural water supplies (70%), with other uses being for mineral water and other commercial/industrial use (25%) and a small amount of abstraction for agriculture (2%). Groundwater is thought to be generally of Ca-Mg-HCO3 type (BGS 2002). Arsenic has been identified as a problem in some areas, particularly associated with zones of gold mineralisation in Birimian (Lower Proterozoic) volcano-sedimentary rocks (Smedley et al. 2007). Recharge occurs from rainfall infiltration and is typically low. Indirect recharge in local depressions can be important (Obuobie and Barry 2012).
Groundwater quantity
Average recharge rates are estimated at 5 mm/year in the drier north and 50 mm/year in the south, but local estimates range up to 250 mm/year (Obuobie and Barry 2012).
Generally, groundwater in Burkina Faso is of suitable quality for drinking water supplies, although there are local problems. Naturally occuring arsenic has been identified as a problem in some areas, particularly associated with zones of gold mineralisation in Birimian (Lower Proterozoic) volcano-sedimentary rocks (Smedley et al. 2007). Pollution from nitrate is thought to be common in shallow groundwater sources, derived from domestic waste as well as agricultural sources, often highest in areas of high housing density (BGS 2002). Groundwater in some areas of northwest Burkina Faso has high salinity (BGS 2002).
Groundwater use
Groundwater in Burkina Faso is used mainly for domestic water supply, particularly in small towns and rural areas; the city of Bobo Diolasso also relies on groundwater. Groundwater supplies around 15% of water supply to the capital Ouagadougou, but is particularly important in the dry season. Some groundwater is used for small scale market garden irrigation, for example supporting dry season cultivation in the south. It is also used for for livestock watering. Industry is the smallest user of groundwater in the country (Obuobie and Barry 2012).
Groundwater abstraction is mainly from boreholes and wells. Most boreholes are fitted with pumps: typically mechanised in urban areas, and hand pumps in rural areas.
The Ministere de l'Environment et de L'Eau (MEE) is the government department with responsibility for sustainable use of groundwater and surface water resources in Burkina Faso. Different MEE departments are responsible for different aspects of domestic, agricultural and industrial use of water and for energy production.
The National Council for Water is responsible for ensuring implementation of laws governing surface and groundwater management (Obuobie and Barry 2012). The Water Management Policy Act (2001) provided for state ownership of all water resources (with limited exceptions) and established a permit regime for water abstraction for non-domestic uses (Obuobie and Barry 2012).
The national organisation with responsibility for water supply is the Office National de l’Eau et de l’Assainissement (ONEA).
Transboundary aquifers
There are no major transboundary aquifers in Burkina Faso.
For further information about transboundary aquifers, please see the Transboundary aquifers resources page
The following references provide more information on the geology and hydrogeology of Burkina Faso. These, and others, can be accessed through the Africa Groundwater Literature Archive.
Geology: key references
Castaing C, Le Metour J, Billa M (cooronnateurs). 2003a. Carte géologique et minière du Burkina Faso à 1/1 000 000ème. Proj. SYSMIN 7
Castaing C, Billa M, Milési J P, Thieblemont D, Le Metour J, Egal F, Donzeau M et al. 2003b. Notice explicative de la carte géologique et minière du Burkina Faso à 1/1 000 000ème. Proj. SYSMIN 7
Hottin G et Ouédraogo OF. 1975. Notice explicative de la carte géologique à 1/1 000 000 de la - IWACO ·1989· Etude du bilan du Burkina Faso. Rapport intermédiaire de la deuxième phase 1987-1990. Tome 2 : inventaire des ressources en eau
Sattran V et Wenmenga U. 2002. Géologie du Burkina Faso (Czech Edition), 10 dec 2002, République de Haute-Volta, Edition BRGM, 56p
Hydrogeology: key references
BGS. 2002. Groundwater Quality: Burkina Faso. British Geological Survey. http://www.wateraid.org/~/media/Publications/groundwater-quality-information-burkina-faso.pdf
Ministère de l'eau. 1993. Notice explicative de la carte hydrogéologique du Burkina Faso échelle 1:5OO.OOO, feuille Ouagadougou - DEP du Ministètre de l'eau, Assistance technique : IWACO B.V., Financement: Burkina FasolPays-Bas, 4Sp. + cartes
Ministère de l'eau. 1988. Rapport de fin de projet : travaux et résultats hydrogéologiques - projet d'hydraulique villageoise Yatenga II, CCE, FED, Convention n034981BF, 48 p+annexes
Ministère de l'eau. 1990. Etude des ressources en eau souterraine du Yatenga - CIEH, série hydrogéologie, 138p.
Ministère de l'environnement et de l'eau. 1998. Politique et stratégies en matière d'eau 126p.
Obuobie E and Barry B. 2012. Burkina Faso, in Groundwater Availability and Use in Sub-Saharan Africa; a review of fifteen countries. Pavelic P et al. (Eds). International Water Management Institute, Sri Lanka.
Smedley PL, Knudsen J and Maiga D. 2007. Arsenic in groundwater from mineralised Proterozoic basement rocks of Burkina Faso. Applied Geochemistry 22, 1074-1092.
UN. 1988. Burkina Faso, in Ground water in North and West Africa. Natural Resources/Water Series No. 18, ST/TCD/5. Department of Technical Co-operation for Development and Economic Commission for Africa.
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The 2nd Movie Review : Ryan Phillippe’s tedious B-Grade Action Flick
THE 2nd STORY
The daughter of America’s Supreme Court judge is about to be abducted, but her boyfriend’s father – an ex-Army man comes to their rescue. Will he be able to thwart the abduction and save lives?
THE 2nd REVIEW
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Major Vic Davis (Ryan Phillippe) is a decorated Army man who is in town to pick up his estranged son Sean (Jack Griffo) from his college. He is hoping for a redeeming reunion with his son, but instead, finds himself in the middle of a high-stakes terrorist operation. The target is his son’s young college mate Erin Walton (Lexi Simonsen), who is the daughter of a Supreme Court Justice.
The kidnappers want to coerce the judge to force his hand on a Second Amendment vote. It’s time now for Davis to use his elite training and years of experience to fight the bad guys and save innocent lives.
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The premise has enough ammo to fuel the narrative with action and adventure but this so-called thriller runs out of steam pretty soon. Director Brian Skiba, who has abundant experience directing high-octane action flicks sorely disappoints here with a humdrum execution. Despite being short on runtime, most scenes are needlessly long and pointless.
After a while they become exhausting. The film’s writing (Eric Bromberg, Paul Taegel) is weak and uninspiring. The biggest issue is that there is such a lack of conviction in the way this story is told that none of the action, despite being decently choreographed, leaves the desired impact.
The performances are passable. Ryan Phillippe (the only star face) looks way too young and dapper to be playing a father to a nerdy teenager, who just doesn’t look like his son. The actors are given the most routine and insipid dialogues that fail to add any zing to the already dull implementation. The film’s cinematography is satisfactory (Adam Biddle), but the edit could have been tauter.
The lack of technical finesse and a bland background score further contribute to making ‘The 2nd’ a boring affair. The fans of Skiba and Phillippe would surely be let down by this tedious B-grade action flick that misses the mark by miles.
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The War With Grandpa Movie Review: A Light and Fluffy Family Film to Watch
THE WAR WITH GRANDPA STORY
This story is based on a novel with the same name, ‘The War with Grandpa’. It is about a little kid, who is upset that he is forced to move out of his room when his grandfather moves in with them. He declares war on the grandpa to push him out of the house, but the septuagenarian fights back. The story is about who will win this war?
THE WAR WITH GRANDPA REVIEW
The Deckers family is a regular happy American family with a house full of kids. Three to be precise; two daughters and one son. But Sally (Uma Thurman) is also a doting daughter who cannot believe that her father Ed (Robert De Niro) lives alone, wallowing in his loneliness, after her mother’s death. Sally one day lands up at his house and somehow drags him along to live with them even after Ed’s resistance. The only concern is that Sally’s young son Peter (Oakes Fegley) has to move out of his room and live in the attic so that the grandpa can be accommodated.
After some persuasion from her mother on how one needs to sacrifice for the family, Peter gives up and reluctantly moves out of the room. Soon, his friends at school force him to get back what is rightfully his. Peter declares a war on his grandpa who does not cave in and decides to play along and give it back to his grandson.
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Director Tim Hill kept it light and fluffy all throughout, never crossing the line. He made this futile war seem nothing more than a little kid’s stubbornness. The film is not an overtly emotional tear-jerker. Along with a few homilies about how only fools and generals go to war, the film’s writing is rooted in its silly gags. And while there is some fun to be had there, that’s also where the problem lies. A lot of it is just flat out silly and not truly funny to evoke many organic laughs.
Barring a few odd LOL moments, there are mostly slapstick scenes where oldies are jumping, falling, flying around, or worst still, inadvertently dropping their pants in front of their grown-up children. And a lot of it is quite predictable too.
There’s also no dearth of stereotypes. A school bully, who routinely acts like a jerk, but goes unchecked, until a bunch of old men teaches him a lesson…by erring literally, throwing him into the garbage bin.
Uma Thurman, being such a seasoned actress, comes across as surprisingly hammy with all sorts of loud expressions to portray Sally’s slightly skittish character. And it gets really over-the-top when she gets into the ‘Kill Bill’ mode and attacks her teenage daughter Mia’s (Laura Marano) young friend, thinking that he’s fooling around with her. Poppy Gagnon as the little Jennifer is the cutest little surprise package, whose sunshine innocence makes even the banalest scenes sparkle. Rob Riggle is all but wasted.
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Homesteading without a lick of carpentry or livestock experience turns out to be much more complicated. We are now into the landmark 10th season as the Kilcher family will have to dig deep to overcome a number of challenges. However, we can’t help see them as reality stars with a huge net worth and family life. But first, we need you to sign in to PBS using one of the services below. After marrying Mollee Roestel, the Raney's moved to an extremely remote homestead in Haines, Alaska, surrounded by a very high concentration of Alaskan brown bears. Throughout their historic adventure, the families' trials, triumphs, simple pleasures, and daily rigors were revealed. Welcome! Using only the resources and tools of the period, they will attempt to build homes, raise livestock, hunt and grow crops. All episodes can be watched on youtube or on An American Homestead website. Shop recommended products from Living Traditions Homestead on Amazon.com. Jack Spirko. Learn what to do when you find a snake in your bathroom and what not to do when you’ve got a big predatory cat in your yard. And Jane Kilcher is still adept at catching a fish. Two couples assume the lives of early settlers to the West. Homestead: Watch full length episodes & video clips. Marty Raney's adventures began in 1974 in the logging camps of Southeast Alaska. He does … TV show guide for Homestead Rescue: Raney Ranch. The families headed west in May 2001 and resided there until October, with just the tools of the period at their disposal. Your email address will not be published. The gritty reality TV star, whose show is … Marty Raney says he's seen the best of the American spirit while working on Discovery Channel's "Homestead Rescue." Learn more about Living Traditions Homestead's favorite products. This channel is produced by a familiy that has been growing their food in an urban environment for over 30 years. Ambition knows no bounds, nor does corruption in a political thriller. For years the Raney family has helped novice homesteaders around the country save their homesteads from brink of failure and helped to bring their dreams of living off the grid to life. For the hundreds of families who decide to become homesteaders, the learning curve is a steep one. Season 1, Episode 1 Living on the Edge First Aired: October 6, 2020 The Raney family kicks off the most ambitious rescue ever, on their own 40 acres. The series followed three family groups that agreed to live as homesteaders did in Montana Territory on the American frontier in 1883. We can remove the first video in the list to add this one. More. Jack Spirko apparently is a big activist for learning all you can from the forest. The new series will follow the Raney family as they tackle fixing up their homestead. Living Traditions Homestead is all about living a more traditional life in our modern world. I carry the full line of Fusion Mineral Paint and Milk Paint by Fusion and have it all in stock. Frontier House is a historical reality television series that originally aired on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in the United States from April 29 to May 3, 2002. Now their dreams of living off the grid are chronicled as patriarch Marty Raney will accomplish the biggest rescue of all – his very own 40-acre homestead. About Homestead Rescue: Raney Ranch The Raney family have long helped novice homesteaders all around the country save their homesteads from failure. Quest for the Bay: Eight people undertake a grueling and difficult 8-12 week journey through the heart of the Canadian wilderness in a historically accurate York Boat with only period provisions. Shows of An American Homestead are released usually once a week on Monday morning. His very first home in Alaska was not only off grid, it was off land: a floating logging camp on Prince of Wales Island. Homestead Rescue. Frontier House, a six-part, hands-on history series, took three modern-day families back in time to live like 1880s homesteading pioneers in Montana. Marty and Misty Raney brings a lot of building skills to help... 9.2 Frontier House is a local public television program presented by, RECONSTRUCTION: AMERICA AFTER THE CIVIL WAR. About Homestead Rescue: Raney Ranch. The … Watch Now View Schedule. By creating an account, you acknowledge that PBS may share your information with our member stations and our respective service providers, and that you have read and understand the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. Watch full episodes of Homestead Rescue and get the latest breaking news, exclusive videos and pictures, episode recaps and much more at TVGuide.com Grown men cry on this show virtually every episode," he said of Season 2, "and that includes me." You have seen them show how to build a functional homestead for living an unforgiving independent lifestyle in the wild. Frontier House took three families back to the 1880s to live like pioneers in Montana. But first, we need you to sign in to PBS using one of the services below. Log in, 15 Best Off Grid and Homesteading Shows on Netflix. PBS is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. Copyright © 2020 Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), all rights reserved. See more ideas about alaska the last frontier, kilcher homestead, alaska. This season, summer is here and the homestead is gearing up for the fall harvest. 6 Seasons. Matt Raney, Marty Raney, and Misty Raney on Homestead Rescue season 4 (Photo by Discovery Channel) When Marty, Misty, and Matt drive up to a location, it’s the first time they’ve seen it. About. The homestead is put to the test as fires rage in the wooded lands, and one of the cast members appear to succumb to an illness and requires hospitalization. Frontier House, a six-part, hands-on history series, took three modern-day families back in time to live like 1880s homesteading pioneers in Montana. Heimo Korth and his wife Edna, are the only two people living within 19 million acres of Alaskan wilderness. You've just tried to add this show to My List. In the last decade, two million Americans have attempted to leave behind civilization in favor of life off-the-grid - but most have failed. Chantel and Emanuel moved to North Carolina for a simpler life. The show is a year long, very recommended. I also carry most of the Miss Mustard Seed's Milk Paint line. Chantel and Emanuel moved to North Carolina for a simpler life. Created by Jamie Brown. Homestead Rescue: Raney Ranch is coming soon to Discovery. We can remove the first show in the list to add this one. Frontier House took three families back to the 1880s to live like pioneers in Montana.MoreMore. Homesteading without a lick of carpentry or livestock experience turns out to be much more complicated. The Raney family, who features in ‘Homestead Rescue,’ makes life even in the Alaskan wilderness not seem half that bad. Homestead - Show News, Reviews, Recaps and Photos - TV.com Save America's Homesteads Struggling homesteaders across the country are turning to the Raneys to teach them the necessary skills to survive the wilderness. The Urban Homestead Channel If you or someone you love is in an urban environment, this channel is filled with food-growing ideas. Scorpion stings, crocodile attacks, spider infestations… hear from animal experts and attack survivors as they detail firsthand encounters with some of the world’s most lethal animals. Together, the two hunt and fish and strive to be as self-reliant as possible. Hello Everyone And Welcome To Homestead Tessie My Name Is Teresa! Called alternatively “Homestead Living”, “Homestead Rescue” and “Off Grid Living”, this TV show is explained as a home improvement show with a simple-living twist… Homestead Rescue (TV Series 2016– ) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Julie has been a homesteader for over 10 years. Track Homestead Rescue: Raney Ranch new episodes, see when is the next episode air date, series schedule, trailer, countdown, calendar and more. Dec 24, 2018 - Explore Stephanie strong's board "Kilcher homestead" on Pinterest. Welcome to Homestead Living Welcome to Homestead Living Welcome to Homestead Living. Kilcher Homestead Living Museum: Alaska the Last Frontier TV Show location - See 62 traveler reviews, 76 candid photos, and great deals for Homer, AK, at Tripadvisor. On Homestead Rescue, struggling homesteaders across the country are turning expert homesteader Marty Raney - along with his … Your one stop for Fusion Mineral Paint Products! Use one of the services below to sign in to PBS: You've just tried to add this video to My List. Homesteading is a lifestyle of self-sufficency, characterized by gardening, raising animals, preserving the harvest, emergency preparedness and learning time honored skills to become more self-reliant. Homestead of Horrors The Raney's are going to North Carolina to visit homesteaders Emanuel and Chantel, to rescue not only a homestead but a hole house. Marty, Matt, and Misty Raney use their building, farming, and hunting expertise to help people who strive to live off the grid. In Discovery Channel’s Homestead Rescue, we’ve seen a ton of city folk try to make a go for homestead living. Topics include growing food in small spaces, nutrition, DIY, renewable energy, and more. She and her family live on a 4 acre plot of land in Southwestern Colorado. Read the latest Homestead episode guides & recaps, fan reviews, news, and much more. Surviving Alone in Alaska. 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ZITKALA-ŠA f Sioux Means "red bird" from Lakota ziŋtkála "bird" and šá "red". ta-ko-ta, tak-ota] The baby boy name Takota is also used as a girl name. Some farming and ranching are done, and tribal government is a major employer. Discover your core purpose and make it a reality through a Balanced Name - ancient wisdom for a modern world. The Lakota Tribe The Sioux were largest Indian tribe and comprised of three major divisions based on Sioux dialect and subculture: Santee or Eastern Dakota tribes. No longer in scholarly use. Lakota reservations were among the poorest communities in the United States in the 1990s, with up to 80 percent unemployment—meaning that eight out of every ten people who wanted to work could not find jobs. You are wise and practical with an appreciation of beauty. 64 results. East (Yellow) - Wioheumpata - The direction from which the sun comes. Example sentences with "white", translation memory. Found 3 sentences matching phrase "white".Found in 0 ms. Lakota, meaning "friends or allies," are Plains Indian peoples. add example. Most Lakota, Dakota and Nakota people live on South Dakota's nine reservations. What does Lakota mean? They are treated with great respect. We have included twenty basic Lakota words here, to compare with related American Indian languages. Ability / IKIPI/ ee - kee - pee 6 Answers. You are moral, balanced, honest and intellectual, and you may attain spirituality. Light dawns in the morning and spreads over the earth. A member of the branch of the Sioux composed of the Yankton and Yanktonai. 7 years ago. It DOES mean something in Lakota because I have a Lakota friend that says it often. Showing page 1. (Because he could do marvelous things like Wakan could do) Wasicun Ceremonial bag of the Lakota … Takota is a variant of the name Takoda (Siouan). What does lakota people mean? The Lakota believe all things contain a spirit; including animals, plants, rocks, and rivers. Browse for all the origins, histories, and meanings of Lakota and over 40,000 other names. en The eagle is white. Lakota - Name Meaning - Is the name of Lakota helping or hurting you? Lakota Sioux symbols reflect this engagement with the natural and spiritual worlds, as well as commitment to respect, rather than dominate, the natural world. Compassion is important to the Lakota people, as they all work together and lean on one another for support and survival. You can find more Lakota words in our online picture glossaries. In the Lakota culture, the word tiyospaye encompasses the conviction that family is not only made up of immediate blood relatives, but also extends to all those within their tribal clan. This page features the playing of common words and phrases in the Lakota-Sioux language. tatoeba. Favorite Answer. Abandon / AYUSTA/ ah - yue - shdah. The numerical value of -hou in Chaldean Numerology is: 9, The numerical value of -hou in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8. What does LAKOTA PEOPLE mean? The Lakota are also known as the Western Sioux, although the latter is a pejorative name meaning "snakes in the grass," applied to them by Algonquian-speaking neighbors to the east. ENGLISH / LAKOTA / LAKOTA PRONUNCIATION. English words for la include the, la, her, it, A and you. Answer Save. The eagle is a winged symbol for the Lakota people. See also the related categories, siouan and american. Lakota is an unusual baby name for boys. What Does Name "Lakota" Mean You always bring to completion anything you start. Lakota is a Siouan language, related to other languages like Dakota and Assiniboine. It also acknowledges the wind, water, the lightning and thunder that reside in the west. bloka(blo-kah)…. Similar phrases in dictionary Lakota English. The Lakota work together as a people, and the system would not function if dishonesty prevailed. middle Sioux are often referred to as Yankton or Western Dakota, often classified as “Nakota” Sioux. Much of the Lakota Sioux mythology centres around these spirits, as well as mythological creatures and shamanic practice. See usage notes. You are generous but like to see returns from your giving. It doesn't mean anything in Lakota. Wasica does not refer to the color of their skin, but rather to “those we do not understand”. (1) white blood cell wetȟábskala. This name was adopted by a Yankton Dakota writer and political activist, birth name Gertrude Simmons (1876-1938). Couldn't find the right meaning of LAKOTA PEOPLE? All of this is called Wakinyan (of the air) and it does not mean merely “thunderbird.” Wearing black face paint is earned by a warrior. Perdiste la oportunidad de conseguir una entrada gratis. My people speak Lakota, Nakota and Dakota, they are the names of our language not the name of any Tribe. Definition of lakota people in the Definitions.net dictionary. Takota is an unusual baby name for boys. Relevance. Asdzání . This page is about the various possible meanings of the acronym, abbreviation, shorthand or slang term: LAKOTA PEOPLE. Similar phrases in dictionary English Lakota. b. It is pronounced as LAHK OW TAH †. Lakota is not a Tribe, nor is part of any other Tribe, Lakota is one of three language dialects spoken by the Sioux Tribe. Abdomen / CEYOHE/ chay - yoh - Hay. la-ko-ta, lak-ota] The baby boy name Lakota is also used as a girl name. The cross symbolizes all directions. See also the related category tribal (folk). ZIKANA f Sioux Meaning, "white." (1) naíle oyáte bus signal. The planet Venus was their guiding star. You have an executive ability, you are a leader. Lakota definition is - a member of a western division of the Dakota peoples. advisors, leaders, to … What is the rising action of faith love and dr lazaro? Most of these tensions derive from an outdated Western model of teaching and learning that mis-defines all “good teachers” as “experts” in a content of study. Information and translations of lakota people in the most comprehensive dictionary definitions resource on the web. Important to all Native American tribes, honesty is integral to their way of life. The name Lakota means friend in America. Lv 7. The history of Lakota originates from a American background. Dakota comes from the word Da meaning "considered" and Koda or "friend." No longer in scholarly use. Press ‘Ctrl F’ to open a search box in your browser to search specific Lakota or English words that appear on this page. Wasica wakan Refers to white citizens of the United States. There are also Sioux reservations in North Dakota, Nebraska, Montana, Minnesota and Canada. Important stories and discussion concerning the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego. They represent the largest of three divisions within the political body known as the Titonwan, along with the Dakota and Nakota. But that's not how it is used today by the neo-pagans. It is a Lakota word meaning "good". 2. a. Speaker of the Lakota words is Millie Pitt of Casper, Wyoming: a Cheyenne- River Sioux tribal member. From these four directions come the four winds. en I have a white cat. We couldn't find any results for your search. The Souian language spoken by the Assiniboin. It represented the direction from which spirits travel to Earth, symbolizing immortality. The Assiniboine and Lakota Sioux Indian nations of Eastern Montana and North and South Dakota had a spiritual belief in the stars, especially in Venus, whose reflected light made it one of the brightest objects in the night sky with the appearance of a star. You can use our Sibling name generator to find matching brother and sister names for the name Lakota.Here is a list of Sibling names that go with Lakota lkt Igmú ská waŋ bluhá. Their current lands are in North and South Dakota.They speak Lakȟótiyapi—the Lakota language, the westernmost of three closely related languages that belong to the Siouan language family. And it doesn't mean 'garlic.' western Sioux, known for their hunting and warrior culture, are often referred to as Lakota. Lakota means "allies, friends or those who are united." Tatoeba-2020.08. An / WA / wahn. Wopila is a noun in the native American Lakota language referring to a sharing and/or a giveaway (Wopila). 4. Means "virgin" from Lakota witȟáŋšna úŋ (wee-tahn-shee-nah) "to be a single woman, unwed woman, virgin". What does Lakota mean? lkt (Matthew 15:29-38; John 11:38-44) Tȟokáta Jesus itháŋčhaŋ kiŋ wašté hená táku oyáte táŋyaŋ ečhúŋ hená waŋyáŋkapiŋ kte. tas 1. a. It is the strongest and bravest of all birds. The name's meaning is tribal name. the male of animals blotahonka(blo-tah-hoon-kah…. The translation is, "We are all related in this circle of life." See Assiniboin. It isn’t worn because it looks awesome. Most people chose this as the best definition of lakota: A member of the largest a... See the dictionary meaning, pronunciation, and sentence examples. Meaning “of the nature of” or “diminutive of”). Example sentences with "oyáte", translation memory. Conjugations for every Spanish verb. lkt Waŋblí kiŋ ská. The dialect of Dakota spoken by the Yankton and Yanktonai. b. Honesty. Meaning of lakota people. Definitions.net. It happens to mean "thank you" in Kiowa. In Lakota culture, black denotes honor, respect, adulthood. The Lakota (pronounced ; Lakota: Lakȟóta/Lakhóta) are a Native American tribe.Also known as the Teton Sioux (from Thítȟuŋwaŋ), they are one of the three prominent subcultures of the Sioux people. What does LAKOTA PEOPLE stand for? The origin of Takota is the Native American-Siouan language. Try the Lakota is a designation commonly used in Canada. Maybe you were looking for one of these abbreviations: LAKC, LAKD, LAKE, LAKH, LAKO, LAKS, LAKSHYA, LAKX, … For this reason, the eagle and its feathers have been chosen to symbolize what is highest bravest strongest holiest.. An eagle's feathers are given to another in honor, and the feathers are worn with dignity and pride. Conversely, non-Native teachers often feel uncomfortable trying to somehow do justice when teaching about a sacred culture and language like that of the Lakota, Dakota and Nakota people. Pronounce Takota [ syll. add example. Each direction has a special meaning and color associated with it. The origin of Lakota is the Dakota language. What does Takota mean? The name Lakoda is a variant of Lakota. stemming. Also to the moron who said Oglala was a Tribe, it's not, it's a band within the Sioux Tribe. Its pronunciation is TaaK OW TAH †. When the Lakota people pray or do anything sacred, they see the world as having four directions. The Lakota saying that best describes this belief is, Mitákuye Oyás’iŋ el lechangleska wichoni. Pronounce Lakota [ syll. —Revelation 11:15. jw2019.
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39 arrests in Egypt clashes on Monday
21 arrests in Cairo and 18 in Tanta during clashes between anti-Brotherhood protesters and police on anniversary of Hosni Mubarak's ouster
MENA, Ahram Online , Tuesday 12 Feb 2013
A protester, who opposes Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, throws a tear gas canister, which was thrown earlier by the riot police, during clashes in front of the presidential palace in Cairo February 11, 2013. (Photo: Reuters)
Modest countrywide anti-Morsi protests, clashes at Presidential Palace
Fresh skirmishes erupt outside Egypt's Presidential Palace
Hundreds chant against Morsi on 2nd anniversary of Mubarak ouster
Egypt opposition to mark 2nd anniversary of Mubarak ouster with anti-govt rallies
Thirty-nine people were arrested across Egypt during clashes between anti-Muslim Brotherhood protestors and police on Monday, state news agency MENA has reported.
Twenty-one people were arrested at the presidential palace in Cairo's Heliopolis district and referred to the prosecution office on charges of assaulting police forces. They were also accused of attempting to break into the palace.
Anti-Brotherhood protests took place in Cairo and several other governorates on Monday, the second anniversary of the day Hosni Mubarak was forced from power.
In Cairo, skirmishes broke out in the evening between protesters and Presidential Guards at the palace.
The Presidential Guards used water cannons against protesters after they attempted to tear down barbed wire surrounding the palace.
Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim had ordered extra security at the palace and on nearby roads.
Another 18 people were arrested in Tanta in the Nile Delta during clashes outside local government buildings.
A security official has said 19 people arrested on Friday during clashes at the presidential palace were being detained in Tora prison pending investigations, MENA reported.
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Bregenz and Braga to clash for Group D spot
Bregenz inch one step closer to the VELUX EHF Champions League Group Phase by winning their tie against Belgian side Achilles Bocholt; they now move onto their deciding match on Sunday against ABC/UMinho of Portugal who won their tie in flattering fashion.
• Chen Pomeranz was the day's top scorer with 12 goals
• Achilles Bocholt & Maccabi CASTRO Tel Aviv will play for 3rd spot and an easier EHF Cup route
• Marko Buvinic was Bregenz Handball's top scorer with eight goals
• Bregenz are only one win away from ending a seven-year VELUX EHF Champions League Group Phase drought
Bregenz Handball (AUT) vs Achilles Bocholt (BEL) 39:31 (20:17)
The Austrian side took advantage of their home court, taking what looked like in the end a straightforward win. However, it wasn't always plain sailing for them.
Early shock for Bregenz
There was no shortage of goals during the first part of the game, with both teams having their defenses exposed by the opponents’ fast combinations. Surprisingly, it was the Belgian side who took the early control of the game, leading until the 9th minute (6:7). But that quickly changed. As the Austrian side upped the tempo, Bocholt found themselves trailing, between the 14th and the 24th minute the Austrian side scored seven to Bocholt's three that helped Bregenz pull away.
Kedziora: the only bright spot for Bocholt
Their defence did not improve as the time passed. Therefore, it was no surprise that the half-time score was a no-nonsense 20:17 in favour of the hosts.
The Belgian side relied too heavily on Damian Kedziora’s goals, as the Polish-born Belgian wing proved to be less than enough for Bocholt, even if he scored nine times throughout the tie.
Rest in the second part
Therefore, it was no surprise that Bregenz even tried to rest their main players in the second half, having tomorrow's showdown in mind. But the result was in no way affected, as the hosts continued their stroll to a 39:31 win. This performance improves their chances of making their comeback to the VELUX EHF Champions League Group Phase after a seven-year hiatus.
Bart Lenders, head coach of Achilles Bocholt touched on his teams lack of Champions League experience: "Bregenz has more experience than us in playing such games. We have a very young team. Considering this, the game was OK. We made some mistakes and Bregenz had a good large bench to choose from."
Bregenz Handball's coach Robert Hedin said post-match: "Thanks to Bocholt for a good and fair game. We were well prepared for today. They were very good and put us under a lot of pressure. We had to fight for 60 minutes. In the second half, we played a bit better in the defense and that was key."
ABC/UMinho (POR) vs Maccabi CASTRO Tel Aviv (ISR) 34:27 (16:16)
Chen Pomeranz’s stellar game was not enough for Maccabi CASTRO Tel Aviv’s first win in the VELUX EHF Champions League, as the Israeli team was defeated by a sturdy Portuguese side.
Strong start for the newbies
With FC Porto’s strong outing last season, ABC/UMinho was hoping to continue the Portuguese tradition in the European premium competition.
However, the first hurdle was a tough battle against a hopeful Israeli side, who played their maiden game in the competition.
While Maccabi were newbies, they surely did not play like ones, taking an impressive 11:8 lead after 18 minutes
ABC comeback
However, it was nearly impossible for Maccabi to continue at the pace they were exhibiting, hitting 79 per cent of their shots. Therefore, it was no surprise that the Portuguese side balanced the game out with some hefty defensive skills; the first half wound down to a 16:16 draw.
Full gas in the second half
No matter the importance of tomorrow's final, ABC went full gas in the second half and quickly established an great lead. While the final difference, a seven-goal win, 34:27, flatters the winning side, Maccabi's consolation was a competitive outing in their maiden game in the Europe's top league.
Therefore, tomorrow's final, which will be played at 16:30 local time in Bregenz, will feature the two favourites, the home side and ABC/UMinho.
The top scorer of the day, Pomeranz, wasn't too down after the game commenting: "We are here for the first time in Champions League qualification. We see that experience is a big thing. We started the game well and surprised them, but I think we lack a deep squad."
Carlos Resende, head coach of ABC/UMinho stated after the game: “It was really tough! We lost some duels in defense and also had some bad issues in the attack in the first half. In the second we tried to solve the problems in the defense. I think we managed to do that pretty well. We know that it will be difficult tomorrow, but we’ll stay focused on making it to the Champions League Group Phase."
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Several months of beer swigging has left the Bastard feeling a tad run-down, so he takes a trip out of town ...
I decide to take a couple of weeks off to get a well-deserved break from the stresses of work (ie alcohol poisoning) with a trip to the seaside.
Being the cautious type I leave instructions with the PFY to e-mail me daily on the events that have occurred. Sadly, my laptop is currently pending upgrade replacement (signed by the Boss in one of his more lax moments) so my only form of contact with the civilised world is via an Internet Cafe.
Like 90 per cent of the cultured e-mailing world, I prefer to read personal communications in the privacy of my office or home without the distraction of Quake playing in the background. There's plenty of time for that during chargeable hours. I'm also not a big fan of waiting for a condescending ponytail-type to log me into the slowest PC on the face of the earth, with so little memory that it has to page just to let you enter your password.
I mention that I'd like to use my favourite e-mail package, only to get a smarmy response.
"First time is it?" ponytail chuckles smugly. "No-one uses that program any more."
I could beg to differ, but what the hell.
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He burbles on about some Alpha release of GeekySoftwareCorp's latest bugpack, and types in the password ('connect', I happen to notice) to enable the desktop machine. He then begins a well-practised 'there's nothing to be
nervous about when you've been using computers as long as me' monologue. I restrain my impatience. Eventually he finishes, turns back to the machine and discovers that all is not as it should be, perhaps because I pushed most of his applications into the recycle bin while his attention was diverted.
Couldn't help myself - old habits die hard.
"That's funny," he comments.
"Oh, it's not working is it?" I whine in a manner so familiar to me from my helldesk days. "Computers never work for me."
Convinced that I'm a first time loser, he, as expected, logs into the file server with his own user ID, depending on his 'lightening-fast' typing speed for password security ('girlbait' - tasteless and wildly inaccurate).
While he's performing the reinstall, I shell out L20 and get myself a debit account for access time from another greasy ponytail at the watered-down espresso counter. This one logs me into a desktop and advises me to 'browse a bit' to get the hang of the system. When he's going and no-one is looking I change out of loser-mode and download my e-mail from work.
Yet another ponytail comes by and chuckles as he monitors my incoming e-mail over my shoulder as it surges in at about 2,400 baud, thanks to a school party watching some real-time video behind me.
A quick scan of my e-mail tells me the Boss is still causing trouble by appointing a temporary senior network analyst in my absence. Definitely something I'll have to get him to keep an eye on.
In the meantime I have smaller fish to fry as one of the ponytails spills an espresso down my back as he waddles past to some unsuspecting customer.
I login to the fileserver as ponytail1 and peruse its
contents. To pass the time I find the desktop login script and make a couple of
While I'm at it I decide the cafe's homepage could do with a bit of jazzing up.
A shocked gasp from behind me moments later informs me that someone's got the new improved version complete with recently uploaded non-real-time video clip.
A little taste of Sweden never hurt anyone - especially not when a quick glance tells me the gasp comes from the teacher of the school group who's trying to drag her students from the display. Methinks that the page was a far cry from the Dangermouse TV homepage they expected.
I tickle the keyboard a moment longer, adjusting my account information then wander over to catch the tail-end of the educational experience that the youngsters have been exposed to.
"That's disgusting," I cry, horrified.
By now a generic ponytail is in situ making profuse apologies. "It's true what they say about the Internet," I mention to the young tutor. "Full of perverts."
"It's just a tool," ponytail responds defensively to the teacher.
"Yes, I saw that," she responds.
It's funny how you can warm to people you hardly know.
A quick cellphone call to the local media later and I'm helping the alluring young teacher and her charges through a bunch of cameramen and reporters. My only stops are to collect a refund of the L200 account balance, and to make an appointment for dinner later that night with the young educator.
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Debt and pandemic: a perfect storm
Governments around the world have issue more debt than ever before in April, following the Covid-19 outbreak. The Institute of International Finance's Global Debt Monitor which tracks indebtedness by sector across key mature and emerging markets, found that worldwide general debt issuance (bonds and loans) hit a record high of $2.6 trillion in April, up from the previous record issuance of $2.1 trillion in March.
The U.S. government was found to have accounted for $1.4 trillion of total global general debt issuance in April, and $1.2 trillion in March. The world’s largest economy has committed to the largest rescue package of any country by far.
In times of pandemic, governments and central banks do whatever it takes, applying a cocktail of fiscal and monetary stimulus tools. But Covid-19 and its economic impact will increase fiscal deficits and public debt rations across countries given higher spending and plunging revenues, the International Monetary Fund warned in a report published April 15.
At the time, governments had taken fiscal actions amounting to about $8 trillion to contain the coronavirus pandemic and its damage to the economy, with G20 countries taking the lead.
Around 187 countries or territories imposed restrictions on the daily lives of billions of people in an effort to try to slow the spread of the virus. Those measures have severely affected consumer spending, industrial output, investment, trade, capital flows and supply chains. Major industries, especially airlines and other travel-related sectors, are on the brink of bankruptcy.
The pandemic and the associated Great Lockdown led to increases in debt and deficits beyond those recorded in the global financial crisis, the Washington-based institution said. As the pandemic abates and the economy recovers in 2021, public debt ratios are expected to stabilise at new—higher—levels.
“In a nutshell, policymakers should do whatever it takes but make sure to keep the receipts” IMF said in its Fiscal Monitor report.
Since the start of the pandemic, economists and finance experts are warning that countries with “high” or “distressed” public debt levels are at risk of severe economic shocks.
Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Angel Gurria told the Financial Times Wednesday (May 13) that additional debt being taken on by governments and companies for managing the coronavirus crisis will "come back to haunt us."
Gurria told the London-based newspaper "we were already carrying a lot of debt and now we are adding more," noting that many countries’ recovery will be much slower than expected."
"I am not convinced that we are going to have a V-shaped recovery. I think it will be more like a U. The key thing is to shorten the lower part of the U . . . When you are thinking about the recovery, we don’t know whether it is going to be 2021 or 2022," Gurria added.
The Covid-19 outbreak has pushed the world to the brink of a recession more severe than the 2008 financial crisis. By early April, more than ninety countries had asked IMF for a bailout. The depth and duration of the downturn will depend on many factors. Analysts expect the damage to be far worse than most anticipate.
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* THE RESTAURANT/CELEBRITY COOKBOOK for LATE 2018
...is one of the hottest trends in cookbooks. Actually, they've been around for many years, but never in such proliferation. They are automatic best sellers, since the book can be flogged at the restaurant or TV show and since the chef ends up being a celebrity somewhere, doing guest cooking or catering or even turning up on the Food Network. Most of these books will certainly appeal to fans of the chef and/or the restaurant and/or the media personality. Many of the recipes in these books actually come off the menus of the restaurants involved. Occasionally, there will be, in these books, special notes or preps, or recipes for items no longer on the menu. Stories or anecdotes will be related to the history of a dish. But because most of these books are American, they use only US volume measurements for the ingredients; sometimes there is a table of metric equivalents, but more often there is not. I'll try to point this out. The usual shtick is "favourite recipes made easy for everyday cooks". There is also PR copy on "demystifying ethnic ingredients". PR bumpf also includes much use of the magic phrase "mouth-watering recipes" as if that is what it takes to sell such a book. I keep hearing from readers, users, and other food writers that some restaurant recipes (not necessarily from these books) don't seem to work at home, but how could that be? The books all claim to be kitchen tested for the home, and many books identify the food researcher by name. Most books are loaded with tips, techniques, and advice, as well as gregarious stories about life in the restaurant world. Photos abound, usually of the chef bounding about. The celebrity books, with well-known chefs or entertainers, seem to have too much self-involvement and ego. And, of course, there are a lot of food photo shots, verging on gastroporn. There are endorsements from other celebrities in magnificent cases of logrolling. If resources are cited, they are usually American mail order firms, with websites. Some companies, though, will ship around the world, so don't ignore them altogether. Here's a rundown on the latest crop of such books –
7.MAZI; modern Greek food (Firefly, 2018, 288 pages, ISBN 978-0-2281-0034-8 $35 USD hardbound) is by Christina Mouratoglu and Adrien Carre, co-founders of MAZI in London UK in 2012. They concentrated on sharing plates of small dishes (meze). The word "mazi" itself means a gathering, a combination, a mixture. The majority of the dishes here, as in the restaurant, are small family-style dishes for sharing. There is a lot of description about the restaurant, with memoir-like material and photos. The 115 recipes are mostly traditional with modern interpretations. Many dishes are GF or vegan. The food, while quick and easy to make, should be prepared in a lot of different dishes – no roast with two vegs here. There are chapters on breads and condiments, salads, raw foods, hot plates, desserts, and some signature dishes from the restaurant. There's some lobster pasta with Metaxa brandy, braised octopus, shiitake mushroom and potato dauphinoise moussaka, lamb shank, and imam bayildi eggplant with stilton. The book could have been improved if it also used more metric in the recipes, or at least had a metric conversion chart. Quality/price rating: 88.
8.TRULLO: the cookbook (Square Peg Vintage, 2017, 2018, 288 pages, ISBN 978-1-910931134 $53.95 CAD hardbound) is by Tim Siadatan, owner of Trullo restaurant and Padella pasta bar in London. It comes with heavy-duty logrolling from Jamie Oliver and Nigel Slater and Fergus Henderson. A trullo is a 19th century Apulian hut with a conical roof. Here's a fresh take on Italian cuisine as presented at Trullo, along with plenty of notes about the restaurant and how it handles food. Topics include antipasti, BBQ, pan and oven, garnishes, feasting and desserts. Little on wine. Some emphasis is on the whole approach: whole baked turbot with poached leeks, whole lamb shoulder (both BBQ and roast), whole lemon sole (both pan-fired and roasted), and whole beef shin with bone marrow. The book could have been improved if it also used more metric in the recipes, or at least had a conversion chart. Quality/price rating: 89.
9.THE ULTIMATE GRAIN-FREE COOKBOOK (Skyhorse Publishing, 2018, 310 pages, ISBN 978-1-5107-2949-0 $24.99 USD hardcovers) is by Annabelle Lee, a former fashion model who has had auto-immune arthritis and lupus. By changing her diet, she could change her health and life. She has a line of Real Food Baking Mixes and a website californiacountrygal.com. This is a nifty collection of preps that are sugar-free and gluten-free. Her emphasis is to eat real without dieting – just give up sugars and gluten grains as a beginning. Later, dairy products can be scaled back as well as fats and oils. Eventually, you'll keep your gut healthy and maybe lose weight. Her sweet and savoury preps include sweet yam gnocchi with brown butter and sage, garlic cheese drop biscuits, spicy salsa wraps, and German chocolate cake. Her arrangement by type (basics, breads, buns, biscuits, breakfast, brunch, crackers, wraps, legumes, pizza, pasta, sweets) is complemented by a bibliography and metric conversion charts. Quality/price rating: 87
10.MASTERING PIZZA (Ten Speed Press, 2018, 262 pages, ISBN 978-0-399-57922 $29.99 USD hardbound) is by Marc Vetri, owner of Philadelphia's Vetri Cucina, Osteria, Amis, and Pizzeria Vetri. He's a Bear Award winner, and he has written three other Italian cookbooks. (One is Mastering Pizza – can Mastering Pasta and Mastering Panini be far behind?). His collaborator is David Joachim who has worked on more than 40 other cookbooks plus magazine articles on food. The late Anthony Bourdain furnished a blurb: "Speaking as someone with a long-time fear of dough, this is the only book I'd rely on with confidence". Vetri's secret for making good dough: hydration levels. There are various levels for various styles (Naples dough, Roman dough, al taglio, et al) and various ovens. Also covered are flour types, pizza stones, baking steels, calzones, rotolos, and focaccia. If you want more, there is a sharp bibliography of writings. And kudos for the insertions of metric measurements right into the recipes themselves!
Quality/price rating: 89
11.CIDERHOUSE COOKBOOK (Story Publishing, 2018, 222 pages, ISBN 978-1-61212-940-2 $19.95 USD paperbound) is by Jonathan Carr and Nicole Blum, cidermakers and owners of Carr's Ciderhouse in western Massachusetts. They make mainly ciders (hard and sweet, syrups, and vinegars. The collaborator is Andrea Blum, food writer, chef and culinary artist at Montalvo Arts Center (California). Here are 127 recipes for the sweet, tart, and tangy flavours of apple cider. It's all arranged by course, from salads, soups, through mains and desserts and drinks. There is a lot of illustrated and photographic material on how they make the diverse ciders, and how you can make your own ciders (both hard and sweet), followed by making vinegars and cider syrups and molasses. Fruit shrubs and fruit vinegars, switchel syrups, apple membrillo (similar to quince), baked apple butter, jellies, and jams complete the primers. What to do with them all? For starters, try candied nuts using apple cider syrup or cider vinegar pickles – and then move on through a range of pork dishes. Resources lists complete the work. The book could have been improved if it also used metric in the recipes, but at least it had metric conversion charts. Quality/price rating: 89.
12.KRICKET (Hardie Grant Books, 2018, 256 pages, ISBN 978-1-78488-158-0 $35 USD hardbound) is by Will Bowlby, heads chef and co-owner of Kricket in London UK. He's got a collection of 80 Indian-inspired recipes which emphasizes seasonal availability of ingredients in the UK. There's smoked haddock kichri, keralan fried chicken, and elderflower and rhubarb kulfi. The full range of food here includes cocktails, breads, pickles, sides and snacks for the modern kitchen. For further excitement, there is cardamom kheerkheer with rhubarb puree and carom seed crumble, jersey royal aloo chaat, and burnt garlic tarka dal. At the back there are 20 menu plans, five for each of the seasons. The book could have been improved if it also used more metric in the recipes, or at least had a metric conversion chart. Quality/price rating: 87
13.BATCHED & BOTTLED (Quadrille, 2018, 192 pages, ISBN 978-1-78713-155-3 $24.99 USD hardbound) is by Max and Noel Venning, brother owners of Three Sheets cocktail bar in London. These are cocktails to be made ahead, after they have been blended or stirred or shaken. We've got two going at home in the fridge: Negroni and White Negroni. To both we may (or may not) add ice cubes or fizzy water. There are 50 preps here in this book, plus tips and advice for the make-aheads. The guide is a boon for those who entertain with cocktails but want to relax and converse without having to take the time to mix the drinks. So these cocktails can be batched a month ahead or an hour ahead – you will be completely free to laugh along with everybody else...Under "gin" in the index, there are a dozen preps that are doable and welcoming. But do watch out for the measurements: use only the metric OR the imperial. If you use both, you will screw up the ratios and might even have liquid left over (750 mL is NOT 30 oz). But kudos for listing both forms of measurement with the ingredients. Quality/price rating: 87
14.CHEFS EAT MELTS TOO (Hardie Grant Books, 2018, 166 pages, ISBN 978-1-74379459-3 $19.99 USD hardbound) is by Chef Darren Purchese, a pastry chef-owner (Burch & Purchese Sweet Studio) in Melbourne Australia. Here he writes on melts made with cheese and toasted bread as he reinvents the hot sandwich game. You will need a variety of sauces: harissa, tamari, mayo, vinaigrette, mustard dressing, 1000 Island, yogurt, chimichurri, piccalilli, pear and walnut chutney, mango chutney, caramel cream, romesco, and more!! After that come the breads: pita, brioche, Turkish bread, baguettes, sourdough, ciabatta, wholemeal sandwich, bagels, and more!! After that come the fillings: BLT, chicken, pastrami, ham, bacon, pork belly, jamon, lamb shoulder, pork shoulder, beef, prosciutto, sardines, anchovies, chorizo, crayfish, turkey, and more!! In each sandwich, there is also some variation of a few cheeses (gorgonzola, swiss, cheddar) and/or a few egg styles (omelettes, fried). Add to any of the sauces and place between two slices of any of the breads …. and voila!! Maybe gout sufferers should avoid this book. Preparations have their ingredients listed in both metric and avoirdupois measurements. Quality/price rating: 89.
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* THE REISSUES, THE REPRINTS, AND THE NEWER EDITIONS...
...all reflect a boom in the cookbook publishing business. A paperback reprint will lower the cost to the purchaser, and also give a publisher a chance to correct egregious errors or add a postscript. Some will reissue a book in paper covers with a new layout or photos. Others will rearrange existing material to present it as more informative text while keeping the focus tight. Some magazines will reissue popular or classic recipes in an "easy" format. Here are some recent "re-editions"...
19.CHARCUTERIE; how to enjoy, serve and cook with cured meats. Rev ed (Ryland Peters & Small, 2014, 2018,160 pages, ISBN 978-1-78879-037-6, $14.95 US hard covers) is by Miranda Ballard, who co-owns the UK ethical beef concern Muddy Boots. This is the 2018 revised edition. Charcuterie and salumi are discussed, especially in the creation of a charcuterie board (French, Italian or Spanish). Layouts are noted, as well as choice of meats and sausages. The Italian board would have olives and crostini, as well as a pecorino and olive oil and sun-dried tomatoes. The French board would also have tapenade, baguette, and a soft cheese. The Spanish board would also have olives, marinated red peppers, rustic breads, Manchego cheese, and almonds. The the rest of the book concerns small bites, apps, salads, light lunches, larger dishes, and side dishes with accompaniments. Home curing is part of the primer. It is a good start. Presumably, you could also end the meal with a cheese board, although this is not discussed. Preparations have their ingredients listed in both metric and avoirdupois measurements. Quality/price rating: 89.
20.NORDIC BAKERY COOKBOOK Rev ed (Ryland, Peters & Small, 2011, 2018, 144 pages, ISBN 978-1-78879-044-4, $14.95 US hard covers) is by Miisa Mink, a partner in the bakery. The Nordic Bakery opened in Soho, London in 2007. This is the revised edition of the 2011 book. The emphasis from the resto is an offering of dark rye bread, cinnamon buns, and coffees. Scandinavian cookery has been touted as wholesome and comforting, with its emphasis on rye flour, oats and barley. So first up, then, is a whole section on breads, followed by savory pastries, cakes, sweet pastries, tarts and cookies. Preparations have their ingredients listed in both metric and avoirdupois measurements. The book is further distinguished by the usual high photographic standards of the finished plates. Typical preps include rye bread, gravad lax, rye baguettes, open faced sandwiches of many kinds, carrot and oat rolls, karelian pies from Finland, and anchovy twists. Quality/price rating: 88
21.RISOTTO; delicious recipes for Italy's classic rice dish Rev ed (Ryland Peters & Small, 2005, 2018, 160 pages, ISBN 978-1-78879-035-2, $14.95 US hard covers) is by Maxine Clark, a cooking teacher and writer who specializes in Italian food. She has also written other such books for Ryland in the past. It was originally published in 2005, as
"Risotto with vegetables, seafood, meat and more". Beginning with the basics (white risotto step-by-step, broths), she continues with sections on food by ingredients: there is a vegetarian section, but of course risottos deal mostly with cheese, egg, poultry, meats, and seafood. There are over 60 recipes here (expanded from 50), including a few desserts. Preparations have their ingredients listed in both metric and avoirdupois measurements. And there is a listing of useful UK and US websites for mail orders.
Good for home cooks, or for those who only want the basics. Try fennel and black olive risotto, pesto risotto, chicken liver risotto, or beetroot risotto. Each recipe is illustrated with a lush presentation photo. Quality/Price Ratio: 87.
22.EASY TAGINE; delicious recipes for Moroccan one-pot cooking (Ryland, Peters and Small, 2012, 2018, 240 pages, ISBN 978-1-78879-045-1, $16.95 USD paper covers) is mostly by Ghillie Basan, cookery writer specializing in Middle East cookbooks and articles. Some of the preps here are from six other writers. It's a timely book, one of the "Easy" series from this publisher and it fits in the "one-pot" mode of ease, although there are other recipes here for traditional or classic accompaniments. Of course, there's a primer on tagines. Lamb tagine is traditional, but she also has preps for beef, kefta, sausage, chicken, duck, vegetable, fish and seafood tagines. That's half the book. There are also a range of couscous, skewers, roasts, pan fries, sides, salads, soups, sweets, and drinks. So all of it is almost a Moroccan cookbook. And you can always use a heavy-based casserole dish instead of a tagine. Preparations have their ingredients listed in partial metric and full avoirdupois measurements, but there is no table of metric equivalents. Do try kefta tagine with eggs and roasted cumin; oven-baked tagine of red
mullet, tomatoes and lime; tagine of beans, cherry tomatoes and black olives; chorizo tagine with lentils and fenugreek; tagine of lamb with veggies and mint; fluffy
pistachio nougat. Quality/Price Rating: 89.
23.EASY COMFORT FOOD (Ryland, Peters & Small, 2008, 2018, 240 pages, ISBN 978-1-78879-042-0, $16.95 USD paper covers) is a publisher's collection of more than 100 "feel-good" recipes for indulgence: warming soups, stews, baked goods, desserts. Twenty writers from the RPS stable were involved, although not equally. The lion's share of the preps come from Maxine Clark and Ross Dobson. Topics also include savoury snacks, broad supper dishes, and teatime treats. If you really want something comforting and stress-reduced, then try those foods with the most umami such as Parmesan cheese or mushrooms. The book could have been improved if it also used more metric in the recipes, or at least had a metric conversion chart. Quality/price rating: 87.
24.SOUPED UP (Ryland Peters & Small, 2018, 144 pages, ISBN 978-1-78879-034-5 $14.95 USD hardbound) is a publisher's collection compiled by Miriam Catley, with recipes from nine different food writers in the RPS stable. Belinda Williams has the lion's share of these preps; the others have six or fewer preps each. Recipes are sorted by chapters into smooth, light, hearty, and luxurious, pretty evenly (although smooth and hearty seem to have a few more). The soups are internation (Vietnam, Morocco, Italian, French, etc.). Some interesting ones: watercress soup with nashi pear, scallops and pancetta; citrus broth with king prawns, chilli and ginger; callaloo with sorrel and crab; pheasant soup with mushrooms and port. The book could have been improved if it also used more metric in the recipes, or at least had a metric conversion chart. Quality/price rating: 88
25.VEGETARIAN PARTY FOOD (Hardie Grant Books, 2018, 192 pages, ISBN 978-1-78488-185-6 $19.99 USD paperbound) is by Jessica Oldfield. It was first published by Hachette Livre Marabout in 2017; this is the English translation. The publisher describes the preps as "delectable vegetable-forward bites for entertaining". So these are ready-to-eat foods for a party or gathering. It has four main sections: basics, dips, vegetarian, and vegan. The 80 meat-free dishes include simple no-cook bites through to complex which require cooking. Typical are basics such as cashew ricotta, dips such as pesto or romesco sauce, veggie such as za'atar popcorn cones or crispy delicata squash rings, and 27 vegan preps such as caprese stacks, portobello pizzas, sweet potato crostini, or artichoke tapenade. Excellent photography emphasizes layout beyond the plated dish. Prep times are indicated in the recipes, but the book could have been improved if it also used all metric in the recipes, or at least had a metric conversion chart. Quality/price rating: 89.
26.RUSTIC FRUIT DESSERTS (Ryland Peters & Small, 2018, 128 pages, ISBN 978-1-78879-033-8 $14.95 USD hardbound) is a publisher's compilation of recipes from the RPS stable of 20 cookbook authors, pulled together by Alice Sambrook. Here are 55 easy and comforting recipes from cobblers to pies, and including crisps, crumbles, tarts, strudels, slumps, puddings and dessert cakes for all occasions. Most authors here have 1, 2, or 3 preps, but Hannah Miles has ll and Maxine Clark has 10. Preparations have their ingredients listed in both metric and avoirdupois measurements. Quality/price rating: 86.
* FOOD BOOK OF THE MONTH! : Ottolenghi Simple (Appetite by Random House)
OTTOLENGHI SIMPLE (Appetite by Random House, 2018, 308 pages, ISBN 978-0-449-01703-6 $42 CAD hardbound) is by Yotam Ottolenghi, who co-owns an eponymous group of restaurants in London. His collaborators include Tara Wigley and Esme Howarth, who have assisted him on his other books. His theme is simplicity for busy cooks, emphasizing (not all together or at once) quicker cooking times, 10 ingredients or fewer, make-aheads, pantry-based, and ease. These are his Mediterranean flavours in 130 streamlined preps, described as "elemental Ottolenghi". And it is all arranged by ingredient: raw veg, cooked veg, rice, grains, pulses, pasta, noodles, meat, seafood, dessert. There is also a lot of additional material on brunches, some menu suggestions, some feast menus, some pantry ideas for basics and spices. And there is a ribbon bookmark, lots of white space, and leading, and good use of bold type. But the book could have been improved if it also used metric in the recipes for teaspoons and tablespoons, or at least had a metric conversion chart.
Audience and level of use: busy people, Ottolenghi collectors.
Some interesting or unusual recipes/facts: vanilla custard with roasted strawberries and rhubarb; spinach- and gorgonzola-stuffed baked potatoes; Puy lentil and eggplant stew; whole roasted sea bass with soy sauce and ginger; lamb meatloaf with tahini sauce and tomatoes; cavolo nero with chorizo.
The downside to this book: very heavy book weight-wise
The upside to this book: great photography
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* DRINK BOOK OF THE MONTH! : Wine Trails (Lonely Planet)
1.WINE TRAILS: United States & Canada (Lonely Planet, 2018, 256 pages, ISBN 978-1-7870-1770-2, $20 USD hardbound) is one of a new series from Lonely Planet detailing 40 weekends in wine country. Covered are the hot spots of California, New York, Texas, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, Ontario, and Nova Scotia. There are single weekends in diverse US states such as Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Virginia, North Carolina – 40 weekends in 16 regions, with California being the most prolific at 14 regions. About 250 wineries are covered, so there is lots to do. With Ontario as an example, there is a snapshot description of the cool climate area, a basic map with numbers for seven wineries to visit on the weekend, and blurb about each winery and their wine specialties. All of them are either sustainable-natural or at the other end of the spectrum, biodynamic. Websites are given for more data, phone numbers, street addresses, time open, food, and price ranges. The end of the Ontario chapter lists a few places to stay, to eat, and what to do. Unfortunately, DevourFest Food Film Festival is not mentioned in the Nova Scotia chapter in the "what to do" section, despite it being around for eight years; it occurs in the heart of wine country at Wolfville. Small but useful photos are strewn about.
Audience and level of use: travellers, especially those who want to spend many weekends at North American wineries.
The downside to this book: 12 contributors are mentioned but it is unclear who contributed what. I assume the guy from Vermont covered that area, and maybe Treve Ring from Vancouver island covered all three parts of Canada.
The upside to this book: there are multiple indexes to architecture and art, experiences, and to the wineries themselves.
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* THE RESTAURANT/CELEBRITY COOKBOOK...
16.SOUTHERN BAKED; celebrating life with pie (Gibbs Smith, 2018, 200 pages, ISBN 978-1-4236-4898-7 $24.99 USD hardbound) is by Amanda Dalton Wilbanks, who opened her first retail bakery in Georgia in 2012: Southern Baked Pie Company. It now has three retail outlets and ships nationally. But why order, when you can bake at home with this very book!! Wilbanks gives us the signature pastry recipe for the sweet and savoury pie creations, plus some special-day meal ideas for all seasons. The book is arranged by month, beginning with January, and we celebrate New Year's Day. In February, we celebrate Valentine's Day. Easter, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas are next, with "game day", "summer picnic", "girls' night" and "birthday" in-between. Her simple pie doughs rely on cold ingredients. She goes into pre-baked dough, partially-baked dough, and lattice tops. She had me at lemon chess pie...Large typeface for the aging (like me). The book could have been improved if it also used metric in the recipes (for international sales), but at least it had a metric conversion chart (but small typeface). Quality/price rating: 87
17.CHARRED & SMOKED (Skyhorse Publishing, 2018, 205 pages, ISBN 978-1-5107-3157-8 $22.99 USD hardbound) is by Derek Bugge, currently chef at Ascend Prime Steak & Sushi in Washington State, after a long career through the Pacific Northwest working in a variety of situations (bars, oyster houses, country clubs, and more). His collaborator is James O. Fraioli who has 28 cookbooks and a James Beard Award to his credit. The book has more than 75 preps and cooking techniques for the grilled set. They open with cooking methods, equipment, rubs, dressings, marinades and sauces. Everything is "charred & smoked": roasted small bites, caramelized soups and salads, grilled and charred feats, blistered and grilled sides, charred and toasted desserts – and even some "smokey" drinks. Smoked bacon pepper jelly anyone? Burnt ash aioli, smoked fig with foie gras moose, grilled frisee with bacon vinaigrette, grilled lamb with charred rapini and mint chimichurri, blistered corn with mayonnaise and queso and chile. The book could have been improved if it also used metric in the recipes (for international sales), but at least it had metric conversion charts. Quality/price rating: 89
18.RICH TABLE (Chronicle Books, 2018, 288 pages, ISBN 978-1-4521-5637-8 $35 USD hardbound) is by Sarah and Evan Rich. "Rich Table" is the name of their restaurant, Carolyn Alburger is the collaborating writer, and Kate Williams is the recipe developer. Heavy duty log rolling here includes David Chang and the late Anthony Bourdain. It's arranged by course: bites, appetizers, pastas, mains, desserts, cocktails. The bites and the apps (35 preps in all) could easily be a bar menu on its own. The Richs try to make every dish a combination of salty, acidic, fatty and savoury, with different levels where appropriate or intuitive. They have multiple uses for baby greens and lettuces, bone marrow, Champagne vinegar, Douglas fir powder (!), EVOO of course, kosher salt, organic Greek yogurt, mustard seed oil, popped sorghum, and dashi. Lots of memoir-type material about the restaurant life, photos, and banter prevail. It is also great to see both metric and American measurements being used in the recipes, except there is no metric listed for teaspoons. Never the less, quality/price rating: 88
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* MORE FOOD AND DRINK BOOKS FOR THE HOLIDAYS !!!
3.ESTELA (Artisan, 2018, 304 pages, $50 hardcover) is by Ignacio Mattos, who worked with Mallman and chefed at various places in NYC until he opened Estela. He now has several other bars and cafes in New York City. His collaborator is food writer Gabe Ullas. Log rollers include Mallman, Waters, Tanis, and Ruth Rogers. Estela specializes in playfulness and boldness, emphasizing the unexpected and surprising such as shaved thin button mushrooms over ricotta dumplings, or fish sauce and pickling broth as accent points. His forte is layering where you can dig down to the most emphatic flavours. The 133 recip3s here come from the restaurant (lamb ribs with chermoula and honey, cherry tomatoes with figs and onions, or mussels escabeche on toast). Arrangement is by course, with salads followed by raw and/or cooked seafood, mains, desserts, and brunch. I loved the veal sweetbreads with onions.
4.LET'S EAT FRANCE (Artisan, 2018, 432 pages, $75 hardbound) is mainly by Francois-Regis Gaudry, French food critic, journalist, and broadcast host; there are about 120 other contributors as well, all sourced, and identified with pix. It was originally published last year in French as "On va deguster La France". At 10 inches by 13.5 inches it certainly is a coffee table unto itself. It's a treasure trove for Francophiles. with compelling infographics and stories to flesh out the encyclopedic
nature of covering 1250 specialty foods, 375 classic recipes, 350 broad topics, 260 personalities, and of course the hundreds of maps, charts, tips, and anecdotes that make the tome come alive in the post-Larousse era. It's historical, so you'll get mini-bios of Brillat-Savarin, Bocuse, Troisgros, Curnonsky, et al. There are poster-size guides to the breads, wines, frites, figs, oysters – and more -- of France. This book's arrangement is random which makes it easy to read and appeals to millennials, but there is a comprehensive index and cross-references to tie it all together. Minutiae here includes the tar baby leg of lamb, for which you will need a construction site. Most illustrations are in colour and are historical, with some advertisements. The work concludes with a bibliography of French food cookbooks and articles. Very impressive indeed. This is one of those books you buy for someone else...but you read it first yourself!
5.THE WINE TABLE (Skyhorse Publishing, 2018, 497 pages, $75 hardbound) is by Vickie Reh. This is a good collection of recipes and advice, with memoir-type materials. It is all about recipes and wine pairings from the kitchens of winemakers. We've seen these kinds of books before, but mostly done about California/Oregon winemakers. Here, the emphasis is European wine countries of France and Italy. There is some introductory material on the principles of wine tasting and pairing, followed by visits to 18 wineries (Weinbach in Alsace, Lo Sparviere in Franciacorta, Arianna Occhipinti in Sicily, Sulauze in Provence, Champagne Legras & Haas, among others). Each is described and the recipes begin to flow. Reh also has material about farm markets, wine bars, restaurants, and wine shops. This is a real collector's tome, weighing in at 2.6 kilos!
6.THE JEWELLED TABLE (Hardie Grant Books, 2018, 272 pages, $50 hardbound) is by Bethany Kehdy. She's got over 80 Middle Eastern recipes, reinterpreted for the modern cook . Events covered include simple weeknight suppers, brunches, celebratory feasts, and more. Other material includes the pantry items needed, menu plans and techniques needed, plus some memoir-type material about food from the Middle East (she's Lebanese). There's a bibliography to other Middle East food reference books, including of course her earlier introduction to Middle East food,' The Jewelled Kitchen". Good food photography.
7.FROM THE EARTH (Hardie Grant Books, 2018, 249 pages, $86 hardcovers) is by the multiple award-winning Australian chef Peter Gilmore. It's an oversized tome (13 inches by 9.5 inches), perfect for covering an entire coffee table all by itself! He celebrates the diverse world of heirloom veggies. These are some of the world's unique and almost forgotten foods. Each has a recipe plus detailed profile and photograph. Also featured are like-minded growers that Gilmore collaborates with. He does have a substitution list for recipes, being aware that "unique' and "forgotten" vegetables are not really available universally. There's "Country Gentleman Corn" with its milky white haphazard kernels, "Kyoto Red Carrot", "Black Chick Pea", "Gete Okosomin Squash", and about 45 or so more.
8.BASQUE COUNTRY (Artisan, 2018, 326 pages, $50 hardcover) is by Marti Buckley; it comes loaded with log rollers who run Basque restaurants. Which is a good thing since this work is a culinary journey through a food lover's paradise, on the cusp of Spanish and French cooking plus its own Basque style. Preps are derived from family tables, dining societies, restaurants, bars, and Basque country grills. It begins, of course, with "pintxos" (pintxoak) the small plates, followed by soups (zopak), fish and shellfish, other mains, sweets and drinks. The major regions are covered with notes and photos plus some recipes. At the back of the cookbook there are resources listed and a translation guide. The drink section is very small, with only such as vermouth, Basque sloe liquor and sangria.
9.COPENHAGEN FOOD (Quadrille, 2018, 288 pages, $50 hardcover) is by Trine Hahnemann, Danish food writer and cookbook author centred in Copenhagen. These stories, traditions and recipes come from her top places to eat, drink, and socialize in Copenhagen: bakeries, markets, cafes, bars, and restaurants. She's got historical background as well as personal vignettes, plus, of course, 70 recipes – all arranged by 8 districts (which also include the suburbs). Lots of good travel and food photography makes this a winner for ex-pats.
10.ATELIER (Figure.1, 2018, 248 pages, $55 hardbound) is by award-winning chef-owner Marc Lepine with Ottawa food writer Anne Desbrisay. These are the signature recipes of Ottawa's Atelier restaurant. As the promo says, "Designed for foodies and chefs with an interest in modern cuisine, this impressive volume is an exciting tribute to one chef's unique culinary philosophy." The beginning highlights the origins and the visions; this is followed by the inventive recipes. Throughout there is stunning photography by Christian Lalonde. Book ribbons help you keep your place. I was impressed by the thoroughness of the preps. One example was "Mossy Trunk" which is a combo of specific smaller recipes for ramp persillade, beef shanks, soft-boiled quail eggs, lemon confit, green asparagus ribbons, green asparagus puree, morel mushrooms, and topped with a variety of flowers, tendrils and sprouts.
11.THE NOMA GUIDE TO PERMENTATION (Artisan, 2018, 456 pages, $60 hardcover) is by Rene Redzepi and David Zilber. Redzepi is the chef and co-owner of Noma in Copenhagen, many times recognized as the best restaurant in the world. He has appeared twice on Time's cover and been profiled in two feature-length documentaries. His " Noma" cookbook was both an IACP and a James Beard winner. Zilber (from Toronto) is a chef and photographer from Toronto who has worked at Noma since 2014 and has served as director of its fermentation lab since 2016. Together they have created the basic work on fermentation (the basic pillar of Noma) in food, with koji, kombuchas, shoyus, misos, vinegars, garums, lacto-ferments, and black fruits and vegetables. It may appear to be esoteric to most cooks and home artists, but for the fermentation lover it is a treasure. There is a lot of science here, but the recipes and techniques are invaluable, such as the "coffee kombucha" made from the remains of coffee grounds, the pearl barley koji, and the butternut squash vinegar. Both chefs believe that fermentation is responsible for making food more complex, nuanced and delicious. Plus of course the health and digestive benefits. Over 100 recipes.
12.LITERARY LIBATIONS (Skyhorse Publishing, 2018, 212 pages, $24.99 hardbound) is by Amira Makansi who concentrates on what to drink with what you read. There is a subject heading at the Library of Congress for this, "Drinking of alcoholic beverages in literature". She starts with the classics from Europe, moves on to the classics from the USA, and thence to mysteries, science-fiction, drinks for lovers, contemporary books, magic potions for swords and spells, and then kiddie drinks for kid lit. She's got them all covered. There's an explanation of the genre and of a specific title, followed by a pairing and rationale. Some are obvious, such as Bloody Mary with Dracula and old vine Zinfandel with The Grapes of Wrath. The Great Gatsby gets a French 75. A great tool for a book club.
13.YOU AND I EAT THE SAME (Artisan, 2018, 216 pages, $29.95 softbound) has been edited by Chris Ying. It also comes with a Foreword by Rene Redzepi of Noma. It is one of a series of books from MAD Dispatches (MAD is Danish for "food"), a non-profit founded by Redzepi. It is "dedicated to bringing together a global food community with an appetite for change". Here is a collection of stories and interviews edited by the co-founder of the late "Lucky Peach". There are 19 sections, each dealing with how we are connected to food, what we have in common, and each written by a different global food writer. One chapter is titled "Everybody Wraps Meat in Flatbread" (tacos to dosas to pancakes to crepes), another is "Much Depends on How You Hold Your Fork" (an interview with Margaret Visser), a third is "Fried Chicken is Common Ground". Cuisine is a shared experience, and immigration is the key to creating good food.
14.MENUS (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018, 174 pages, $25.99 hardcover) is by Jacques Pepin. It has no recipes, and no actual menus. Instead, it is a technicolour work based on Pepin's artwork for blank menus and guest lists. He calls it "a book for your meals and memories". These are for birthdays, anniversaries, holidays and weddings. His fave 75 drawings with borders can be used with guests signing in, wines consumed, music played, space for comments, etc. It's a novel idea at an affordable price (the tome is 12 inches by 10 inches). Visit www.jacquespepinart.com.
15.BEST AMERICAN FOOD WRITING 2018 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018, 288 pages, $22.99 papercovers) has been edited by Ruth Reichl. It is a new annual entry in HMH's "The Best American Series", ignoring any mention of Holly Hughes' "Best Food Writing" annual which has been around since 2000. The latter covers globally, while Reichl's is USA only. There are 28 essays here, reprinted primarily from periodicals that published in 2017. What I like about it is that there are several pages at the back listing "other notable food writing", so you can actually track them down via a public library or the Internet. It also has one of the last writings of the late Jonathan Gold of the LA Times.
The Event: A Tuscan Market Event of wines and foods Nov 22/18
The Date and Time: Thursday November 22 2018 2:30 PM to 5 PM
The Event: A Tuscan Market Event of wines and foods
The Venue: George Brown College
The Target Audience: unknown, although some wine media attended
The Availability/Catalogue: there were no wine catalogues but at least 4 separate booklets on Tuscan food and wine, with nothing really specific about the brands we tasted.
The Quote/Background: The event was organized on behalf of Tuscany and on the occasion of the International Year of Italian Food 2018 by the Italian Trade Commission and Regione Toscana.
The Wines: I did not try every wine.
**** BEST -- Four Stars (91+ in Quality/Price Rating terms):
-Tenuta Pietramora Brumaio Morellino di Scansano $24.95 Gradwell Wines
-Tenuta Pietramora Petramora Morellino di Scansano $31.95 Gradwell Wines
-Cecchi Chianti Classico Storia di Famiglia 2015
-Andrea Paoletti Rancore 2010 Toscano $61 organic Bespoke Wine & Spirits
-Poggio Stenti Maremma Toscana Rosso DOC 2015 $19.90 TWC Imports Licensee
-Poggio Stenti Tribulo Montecucco Toscana Rosso DOC 2013 $21 TWC Imports Licensee
-Tenute Piccini Brunello di Montalcino DOCG 2013 $34.69 Winelovers
-Carpineto Vino Noble di Montepulciano Riserva 2012 Univins
-Carpineto Chianti Classico Riserva 2013 Univins
-Farnito Cabernet Sauvignon Toscano 2011 Univins
***1/2 BETTER -- Three and a Half Stars (88 – 90 in Quality/Price Rating terms):
-Fortulla Rosso di Toscana IGT Cabernet Sauvignon/Franc 2011?
-Tenuta Pietramora Germile Morellino di Scansano $17.95 Gradwell Wines
-Villa Cerna Primocolle Chianti Classico 2015
-Cecchi Chianti 2016
-Uggiano Chianti Roccialta DOCG $14.95
-Falconeri Cabernet Sauvignon di Toscana IGT 2010
-Uggiano Petrai Merlot di Toscana IGT
-La Sala Chianti Classico 2015 $26.50 organic Bespoke Wine & Spirits
-Poggio Stenti Toscana Bianco IGT 2017 $19.90 TWC Imports Licensee
-Dogajolo Toscano Rosso 2015 Univins
*** GOOD -- Three Stars (85 – 87 in Quality/Price Rating terms):
-Poggio Stenti Toscana Rosato IGT 2017 $19.90 TWC Imports Licensee
-Tenute Piccini Chianti Black Label 2016 $14.99 Winelovers
-Tenute Piccini Donna di Valiano Chardonnay 2016 $22.99 Winelovers
The Food: there was Lavazza coffee, there were two cheese stands (one of which had a great Pecorino Toscano), and two salami/antipasto meat stands (one of which was a delicious Piaceri d'Italia finocchiona salami). But otherwise information and food was scarce. The two olive oil stands were too crowded for my attentions.
The Downside: it got crowded really fast, but I was never really sure who the target audience was drawn from. Also, there was scarce information about the foods. There were sheets on the wines but no overall listing nor prices nor levels of availability. It was a show where there was a lot of hand-selling, which can be effective but only if the crowd was smaller and there was more time.
The Upside: I got some exposure to Tuscan wines not normally seen around Toronto.
The Contact Person: p.titone@ice.it
The Event's Marketing Effectiveness and Execution (numerical grade): 82
WORLD WINE WATCH TOP 20/20 WINES: 20 under $20 and 20 over $20 for December 8, 2018
By DEAN TUDOR, Gothic Epicures Writing deantudor@deantudor.com. My "Wines, Beers and Spirits of the Net", a guide to thousands of news items and RSS feeds, plus references to wines, beers and spirits, has been at http://www.deantudor.com since 1994.
These notes for wines available through the LCBO Vintages (on a bi-weekly basis) can always be found at http://www.gothicepicures.blogspot.ca/ or at http://www.deantudor.com
Scores are a combination of MVC (Modal Varietal Character, e.g. a Southern Rhone tastes like a Southern Rhone) and QPR (Quality/Price Ratio value in the marketplace above or below its price).
THIS MONTH'S SPECIAL FINDS --
+662726 POLI VACA MORA AMARO 700 mL Veneto, Italy $39.95
+315200 HENRY OF PELHAM CUVEE CATHERINE CARTE BLANCHE ESTATE BLANC DE BLANC 2013 $44.95
W+147512 13TH STREET JUNE'S VINEYARD RIESLING VQA Creek Shores, Niagara Peninsula 2016 $19.95 12% ABV, MVC/QPR: 89
W+341586 FEATHERSTONE FOUR FEATHERS VQA Niagara Peninsula 2017 $14.95 12.5% ABV, MVC/QPR: 89
W+43281 FLAT ROCK RIESLING VQA Twenty Mile Bench, Niagara Escarpment 2016 $17.95 11% ABV, MVC/QPR: 89
W+483875 THE TRAGICALLY HIP AHEAD BY A CENTURY CHARDONNAY VQA Niagara Peninsula Stoney Ridge Estate Winery 2017 $19.95 13% ABV, MVC/QPR: 89
W+919514 WITHER HILLS SAUVIGNON BLANC Marlborough, South Island 2017 $19.95 13% ABV, MVC/QPR: 89
R+618280 LA CELIA RESERVA MALBEC/CABERNET FRANC Uco Valley, Mendoza 2015 $14.95 13.5% ABV, MVC/QPR: 90
R+132365 VIÑA COBOS FELINO CABERNET SAUVIGNON Mendoza Paul Hobbs 2016 $19.95 13.5% ABV, MVC/QPR: 89
R+723478 ZUCCARDI Q MALBEC Uco Valley, Mendoza 2015 $19.95 13.9% ABV, MVC/QPR: 89
R+486043 PRIMUS CABERNET SAUVIGNON DO Maipo Valley 2014 $19.95 14% ABV, MVC/QPR: 89
R+66738 THE BLACK CHOOK SHIRAZ/VIOGNIER McLaren Vale/Padthaway, South Australia 2016 $18.95 14.5% ABV, MVC/QPR: 90
W+485839 MARCEL CABELIER VIEILLES VIGNES CHARDONNAY AP Côtes du Jura 2014 $19.95 12% ABV, MVC/QPR: 88
W+391847 THIERRY DELAUNAY TOURAINE SAUVIGNON BLANC AP 2017 $16.95 12.5% ABV, MVC/QPR: 89
W+175232 SAINT-ROCH VIEILLES VIGNES CÔTES DU ROUSSILLON AP 2017 $16.95 13% ABV, MVC/QPR: 88
W+562546 TERRANERA GRECO IGT Campania 2017 $17.95 13% ABV, MVC/QPR: 89
R+518977 TERRA TANGRA ORGANIC CABERNET SAUVIGNON/MERLOT/MAVRUD PGI Thracian Valley 2016 $14.95 14% ABV, MVC/QPR: 89
R+560771 CHÂTEAU DE FAUZAN MINERVOIS AP 2016 $15.95 14.5% ABV, MVC/QPR: 89
R+413237 GÉRARD BERTRAND SYRAH/GRENACHE AP Languedoc 2015 $16.95 14% ABV, MVC/QPR: 90
R+561340 LES HAUTS DE VENTABREN CAIRANNE AP 1752 Signature Wines 2015 $17.95 14% ABV, MVC/QPR: 89
R+452789 CONFIDENCIAL RESERVA Vinho Regional Lisboa Casa Santos Lima 2014 $13.95 13.5% ABV, MVC/QPR: 89
R+582882 BISCARDO NEROPASSO IGT Rosso del Veronese 2016 $18.95 13.5% ABV, MVC/QPR: 89
R+408138 QUINTA DO QUETZAL GUADALUPE WINEMAKER'S SELECTION RED Vinho Regional Alentejano 2015 $16.95 14.5% ABV, MVC/QPR: 89
20 over $20
W+127290 THE FOREIGN AFFAIR RIESLING VQA Niagara Peninsula 2013 $23.95 12.1% ABV, MVC/QPR: 88
W+377770 QUAILS' GATE CHARDONNAY BC VQA Okanagan Valley 2016 $24.95 13% ABV, MVC/QPR: 89
W+39271 YALUMBA SAMUEL'S GARDEN COLLECTION WILD FERMENT CHARDONNAY Eden Valley, South Australia 2016 $24.95 13% ABV, MVC/QPR: 89
W+359513 CLOUDY BAY CHARDONNAY Marlborough, South Island 2015 $37.95
13% ABV, MVC/QPR: 89
R+343038 BURROWING OWL MERITAGE BC VQA Okanagan Valley 2015 $57.95 14.5% ABV, MVC/QPR: 90
R+56879 SEGHESIO OLD VINE ZINFANDEL Sonoma County 2014 $54.95
14.8% ABV, MVC/QPR: 89
R+421149 ACROBAT PINOT NOIR Oregon 2015 $28.95 13.5% ABV, MVC/QPR: 89
R+63891 EMILIANA COYAM Los Robles Estate, DO Colchagua Valley 2014 $29.95 14.5% ABV, MVC/QPR: 91
R+76307 SANTA EMA AMPLUS CABERNET SAUVIGNON Maipo Alto, DO Maipo Valley 2016 $21.95 14% ABV, MVC/QPR: 89
R+377036 WAKEFIELD JARAMAN SHIRAZ Clare Valley/McLaren Vale, South Australia 2016 $24.95 14.5% ABV, MVC/QPR: 89
R+402685 GIESEN THE BROTHERS PINOT NOIR Marlborough, South Island 2016 $32.95 13.5% ABV, MVC/QPR: 89
W+557694 MAISON OLIVIER TRICON MONTMAINS CHABLIS 1ER CRU AC 2014 $39.95 13% ABV, MVC/QPR: 89
R+487868 CHÂTEAU L'ESPÉRANCE AC Côtes de Bordeaux - Blaye 2010 $20.95 14% ABV, MVC/QPR: 91
R+349308 CHÂTEAU PEY LA TOUR RÉSERVE DU CHÂTEAU AC Bordeaux Supérieur Vignobles Dourthe 2015 $21.95 15% ABV, MVC/QPR: 89
R+671289 CROIX CANON Second wine of Château Canon, AC Saint-Émilion Grand Cru 2012 $66.95 14% ABV, MVC/QPR: 89
R+959627 CHÂTEAU MONT-REDON CHÂTEAUNEUF-DU-PAPE AC Abeille-Fabre 2015 $49.95 14.5% ABV, MVC/QPR: 90
R+583039 NODO D'AMORE ROSSO IGT Trevenezie Remo Farina 2016 $22.95 14% ABV, MVC/QPR: 89
R+568691 GUERRIERI RIZZARDI 3E CRU AMARONE DELLA VALPOLICELLA CLASSICO DOCG 2012 $53.95 16% ABV, MVC/QPR: 89
R+147876 TENUTA SAN GUIDO LE DIFESE IGT Toscana 2016 $34.95 13.5% ABV, MVC/QPR: 89
The Event: Bubbles Against Troubles Sparkling Wine Tasting in aid of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Nov 26/18
The Date and Time: Monday November 26, 2018 1:30 - 6PM
The Event: Bubbles Against Troubles Sparkling Wine Tasting in aid of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH).
The Venue: Peter Pan Bistro [upstairs]
The Target Audience: wine trade and consumers
The Availability/Catalogue: all stands had tech sheets and/or lists of wines being poured.
The Quote/Background: Mark Cuff of The Living Vine had always wanted to have a sparkling wine tasting from natural and biodynamic wineries. Here he collaborates with Nicholas Pearce, Le Sommelier, The Vine, Cru Wine Merchants, and Noble Estates for a range of sparklers from Champagnes through to Pet-Nat [petillant naturel, methode ancestrale].
The Wines: I did not taste every wine. The Living Vine also had top-notch ciders (Southbrook Organic Wild Ferment Cider 2017, $13.30; Eric Bordelet Normandy Brut Tendre Cider $17.95, and Poire Authentique Cidre $23.95; and Meinklang Foam Cider $33). And a beer (Meinklang Urkhorn Ale Burgenland 330 mL $4.75).
**** BEST -- Four Stars (91+ in Quality/Price Rating terms): not in any order
-Paulo Laureano Sparkling Brut DOC Bucelas 2010 $29.95 Lic Nicolas Pearce [my fave]
-Sorelle Bronca Diffetto Perfetto Sur Lie Prosecco Valdobbiadene Superiore NV $23.95 Lic Cru
-Raventos I Blanc L'Hereu Vlanc de Blancs Brut 2016 $27 Lic Cru
-Monmarthe Champagne Secret de Famille Brut $48.95 Lic Cru
-Champagne Collet Brut Art Deco NV $66.95 The Vine
-Cave Spring Blanc de Blancs Brut CSV Trad Method 2009 $44.75 The Vine
-Bottega White Gold Venezia DOC +348318 Vintages $29
-Laurent-Perrier Cuvee Rose Brut +158550 $99
-13th Street Blanc de Blanc VQA $20.90 Lic
-Champagne Gosset Grand Reserve Brut NV $76.95 Lic Le Sommelier
-JM Sohler Cremant d'Alsace Blanc de Blancs Brut 2015 $24.95 Lic Le Sommelier
-Clos Lentiscus Blanc Brut Nature 2014 Penedes $33.95 Lic Le Sommelier
-Clos Lentiscus Pet-Nat Malvasia Sitges 2014 Penedes $41.95 Lic Le Sommelier
-Clos Lentiscus Rose Brut Nature 2012 Penedes $32.95 Lic Le Sommelier
-Clos Lentiscus Rose 41N Brut Nature 2013 Penedes $36.95 Lic Le Sommelier
-Julia & Navines Cave Brut Nature Reserva "No SO2" Penedes $19.95 Lic Le Sommelier
-Champagne Goutorbe Bouillot Reflects de Riviere Brut NV $58.95 Lic Nicolas Pearce
-Champagne Ducret Le Chemin du Chemin Premier Cru NV $58.95 Lic Nicolas Pearce
-Champagne Fleury Blanc de Noirs $68 The Living Vine
-Barmes-Buecher Cremant d'Alsace Zero Dosage 2016 $32.95 The Living Vine
-Domaine Geschickt Double Zero Cremant d'Alsace 2016 $32.95 The Living Vine
-Chateau Leoube Sparkling de Leoube NV Provence $69.95 The Living Vine
-Alta Alella Cava Mirgin Rose Reserva 2016 $24.95 The Living Vine
-Recaredo Cava Terrers 2012 Penedes $45.95 The Living Vine
-Vittorio Bera & Figli Moscato d'Asti 2017 Piedmont $29.95 The Living Vine
-Podere Carvarola Lambrusco La Rondinina 2016 Emilia Romagna $24.95 The Living Vine
-Meinklang Foam Red Burgenland $36.95 The Living Vine
-Southbrook Vineyards Biodynamic Bubbly Chardonnay 2017 VQA $25.12 The Living Vine
-Supernatural Wine Co. Super Pet-Nat $38 The Living Vine
-Figuiere Atmosphere Sparkling Grenache $45 [orange?] The Living Vine
-Sorelle Bronca Brut Superiore Prosecco Valdobbiadene Superiore NV $20.95 Lic Cru
-Raventos I Blanc De Nit Rose Brut 2016 $32.95 Lic Cru
-Quid Rosato Brut NV Aglianico/Sangiovese $19.95 The Vine
-Schramsberg Vineyards Blanc de Blancs Brut Trad Method 2015 $65.95 The Vine
-13th Street Cuvee Rose VQA $20.90 Lic
-Bonnet-Huteau Terre Australe Pen-Nat NV Loire $25.95 Lic Le Sommelier
-Rolet Cremant de Jure Rose Brut NV $33.95 Lic Le Sommelier
-Aphros Phaunus PetNat Loureiro Vinho Verde DOC 2016 Lima $34.95 Lic Le Sommelier
-Mas Codina Brut Nature Reserva Cava Penedes NV $19.95 Lic Nicolas Pearce
-Domaine Baud Brut Sauvage Cremant de Jura NV $32.95 Lic Nicolas Pearce
-Mure Cremant d'Alsace NV $24.95 Lic Nicolas Pearce
-Chateau Barouillet Splash Pey-Nat VDF NV $26.95 Lic Nicholas Pearce
-La Stoppa Malvasia $25 The Living Vine
-Domaine Geschickt Obi Wine Keno Bulle Pet-Nat Alsace 2017 $37 The Living Vine
-Alta Alella Cava Mirgin Reserva 2016 $24.95 The Living Vine
-Massimago Zurlie Corvina Rose NV Veneto 600 mL $23.95 The Living Vine
-Massimago Mago Spumante Rose Brut 2016 Veneto $34.95 The Living Vine
-Fattoria Sardi Pet-Nat 2017 Tuscany $24.95 The Living Vine
-Podere Carvarola Lambrusco Il Cenerino 2016 Emilia Romagna $24.95 The Living Vine
-Claus Preisinger Ancestral Sankt Laurent 2017 $44.95 The Living Vine
The Food: tubular crisps, popcorn, puff paste twists, veggies, olives, dips, bread.
The Downside: it was raining outside, making it awkward to attend the event.
The Upside: overall, one of the best wine shows I have ever tasted at. It was only a few months back that The Living Vine brought forth the first "orange" wine show in Toronto, and that too was a fab event.
The Contact Person: mark@thelivingvine.ca
NOVEMBER 2018 -- SOME NEW BEVERAGE SAMPLES SENT TO ME FOR TASTING REVIEWS
SOME NEW BEVERAGE SAMPLES SENT TO ME FOR TASTING REVIEWS THIS MONTH –
1.Southbrook Canadian Framboise NV, $19.95/375 mL, winery: jammy raspberry nose and palate, excellent on its own, with chocolate or (even better) as a Raspberry Kir with your bubbly of choice. 13.5% ABV. Twist top. Quality/Price rating is 91 points by Dean Tudor of Gothic Epicures.
2.Southbrook Triomphe Chardonnay Organic 2016 VQA Niagara Peninsula, +172338 Vintages $24.95: fruit is from two contracted growers (Saunders and Laundry), all barrel fermented in oak(2d and 3rd year barrels), lees aging one year, all vegan friendly. 12.6% ABV. Very soft and engaging, much like the 2012 in its youth, some toast but a longish length. Showing some orchard fruit on the mid-palate. Burgundian in style. Best tasted in contemplation, underpriced. Do not overchill. Quality/Price rating is 90 points by Dean Tudor of Gothic Epicures.
3.Southbrook Wild Ferment Chardonnay 2017 Biodynamic VQA Niagara Escarpment, $35 retail at winery and online (releasing December 2018) and also available through select restaurants: 100% chardonnay. The wine is biodynamic, suitable for vegans. Wild fermentations are slow and produce complex wines. Freshness and acidity is emphasized. At 13% ABV, it is quite an experience, especially so after more aging or exposure to air. So far there are tones of lemons, melons, green pear, and some oak. As a distinct food wine, it would pair nicely with cheeses and seafood, but do not overchill. It also tastes more expensive than it is, rich, full with a plush finish. Twist top. Quality/Price rating is 91 points by Dean Tudor of Gothic Epicures.
4.Southbrook Skin Fermented Vidal (Orange Wine) 2017 Biodynamic VQA Ontario, $29.95 retail: this is a terrific wine from Four Mile Creek estates. There is natural expression wild fermentation (juice, stems and skin) over a month long period with foot-trodding. After pressing ans chilling outdoors, the wine settled on lees and was bottled cloudy without any filtering or additives (e.g., no sulphites). It's got a searing intensity and a bit of a sour tang on the finish for character; sugar was <1.5 g/L. The free naturally occurring SO2 is only 6 M/L. So – there is a lot going on here, such as citric tones and tropical fruits, flowers, tea, some green and herbaceous fruit. The winery suggests that it seems to be a successful pairing with vinaigrette salads, bitter greens, and artichokes. I really liked this wine and gave the 2014 version (which admittedly had some aging by 2018) a sound 95 points. The 2017 is somewhat different but in the same style, and hopefully it will age as well. Quality/Price rating is 91 points by Dean Tudor of Gothic Epicures.
5.Southbrook Laundry Vineyard Pinot Noir 2016 VQA Lincoln Lakeshore Organic, UPC 621605, $35 Winery only: This is the start of the new Southbrook Single Vineyard series. The originating source is Heather Laundry's organic pinot noir clone 115 from Lincoln Lakeshore. A second organic Single Vineyard series will be launched next year, from the Warren Saunders Family vineyards. Natural fermentation with 40% whole clusters, aged 19 months in large French oak (11% new oak), 12.6% ABV. It's what a natural pinot noir should be: red fruit dominated by cherries, some forest floor, and a seam of acidity in the finish for food. Very Burgundian in style. It needs more time, and so a double decant is recommended. But I kept mine open for days and returned from time-to-time to re-enjoy. But obviously others are ready to drink it now. Vegan-friendly. Quality/Price rating is 92 points by Dean Tudor of Gothic Epicures.
6.Southbrook Laundry Vineyard Gamay 2017 Biodynamic VQA Vinemount Ridge, $24.95 retail from winery: another in the Single Vineyard series, this one from Vinemount Ridge. It too is biodynamic and suitable for vegans. 12.9% ABV with low free SO2 (12 mg/L). Wild yeast and malo complete the almost four weeks of fermentation on skins, followed by barrel aging in older French barriques for seven months. Light bodied and herbal with red fruit tones, slightly fewer tannins than expected. Not your typical gamay. Screwcap closure. Quality/Price rating is 89 points by Dean Tudor of Gothic Epicures.
7.Southbrook Laundry Vineyard Riesling 2017 Organic VQA Vinemount Ridge, +581603 $22.95 retail from winery: another in the Single Vineyard series, this one from Vinemount Ridge. It's organic, suitable for vegans, and comes from the fab Vinemount Ridge sub-appellation: the home of many great Ontario rieslings which are very close in style to the terpenic Alsatians. Residual sugar is a lowish off-dry 8 g/L. Delicious palate blend of orchard and stone fruit in the mineral style. 11.1% ABV. Could be aged a bit. Screwcap closure. Quality/Price rating is 90 points by Dean Tudor of Gothic Epicures.
8.La Celia Elite Malbec 2015 Paraje Altamira Uco Valley Mendoza, +578187, $24.95 Vintages: a current blend of 93% malbec, 5% syrah, and 2% cabernet franc (varies every year, sometimes with some tannat). Very dense black texture with black fruit dominating and some toasty tones of American wood in the finish. Some butter and cream for mouthfeel, good coffee elements as well. 14.7% ABV. As of now, still a young wine. So do a double-decant and/or taste it over several days. A keeper through 2015+. Quality/Price rating is 90 points by Dean Tudor of Gothic Epicures.
9.La Celia Reserva 2015 Uco Valley Mendoza, +618280 $14.95 Vintages December 8: a baby brother to the Elite, with a malbec and cabernet franc blend. Red fruit tends to dominate, complete malolactic fermentation. Smooth all the way, especially on the finish. Try a double-decant at this stage, to being out its warmth. 13.5%ABV. Competitively priced at under $15. Quality/Price rating is 89 points by Dean Tudor of Gothic Epicures.
10.SonVida Malbec 2015 Reserve Paraje Altmira Mendoza $29.95 Vintages +458240: some cabernet sauvignon added in, plus aging in a bit of new French oak for almost two years (with some US oak). Some smoky mocha tones with mild but upfront black fruit riffing off the full-body but getting louder and more prominent with the finish. Produced by Sonia and David Smith, former UK journalists now making high altitude malbec wine since 2007. Double decanting is needed to bring out the proper fruit expression. But of course the wine can be aged for at least a decade. 14% ABV. Try it with lamb chermoula as I did Saturday night....terrific match. Quality/Price rating is 91 points by Dean Tudor of Gothic Epicures.
11.G. Marquis Vineyards Chardonnay The Silver Line 2017 Single Vineyard Niagara Stone Road VQA NOTL, +258681, $17.95 Vintages: a nifty all-purpose chardonnay with enough fruit (apples, pears, melons) and oak tones (muted vanilla, buttery), probably best as a first course or entry level wine for fish. Slightly off-dry. 13% ABV. No price change in years. Quality/Price rating is 89 points by Dean Tudor of Gothic Epicures.
12. G. Marquis The Silver Line Pinot Noir 2016 VQA Niagara-on-the-Lake, +258673 Vintages, $20.20: with ML and BA (six months in new, mainly French oak, this wine seems burgundian cool climate in style with a wash of Ontario cranberries. Red fruit, black cherries, some smoke, forest floor, long finish. 13.2% ABV. Expect some velvety tones and feel. Hand-picked from over-25-year-old vines. Quality/Price rating is 90 points by Dean Tudor of Gothic Epicures.
13.G.Marquis The Red Line Pinot Grigio 2017 VQA Niagara Peninsula, $13.10 +276501 LCBO:
for an Ontario PG at this price level the melons and pears really come through, with a clean, dry, zesty finish. 12.4%ABV Quality/Price rating is 88 points by Dean Tudor of Gothic Epicures.
14.G.Marquis The Red Line Sauvignon Blanc 2017 VQA Niagara Peninsula, $13.95 +556894
LCBO: expect a basic but useful savvy here, with the usual emphasis on the green weedy character plus some limes and other citric tones. It's an acidic but fresh lingering finish. 12.5%ABV. Quality/Price rating is 88 points by Dean Tudor of Gothic Epicures.
15.G.Marquis The Red Line Cabernet Sauvignon 2017 VQA Niagara Peninsula, $14.10 +473090
LCBO: much is going on here, albeit in a red fruit mode (red currant, cranberries, raspberries, crushed cherries) tempered by some mild oaking and forest floor complexity. 13%ABV. Quality/Price rating is 88 points by Dean Tudor of Gothic Epicures.
16.Rapscallion Frisky Beaver Frisky Red 2017 VQA Ontario, $14.95, winery only: a deep BBQ and gutsy wine for the Man of the House, based on baco noir, marechal foch, and cabernets. 13%ABV. Quality/Price rating is 87 points by Dean Tudor of Gothic Epicures.
17.Magnotta Vidal Icewine Limited Edition VQA Niagara 2016 $32.90, 375 mL, +587154 Vintages: 10%ABV and showing apricot, mango, and pineapple tones, very sweet at 205 g/L residual sugar. I would lay this down for awhile so the fruit flavours can meld together and the finishing acidity rise. Quality/Price rating is 90 points by Dean Tudor of Gothic Epicures.
18.Kittling Ridge Vidal Icewine VQA Niagara 2017 $40.45, 375 mL, +563247 Vintages:
10%ABV with orchard fruit (pear, apricot), melon nuances, and honey (botrytis?). Some hot tropical fruit too. 185 g/L residual sugar is 10% less than the Magnotta.
Quality/Price rating is 90 points by Dean Tudor of Gothic Epicures.
19.Henry of Pelham Family Tree Red 2016 VQA Ontario, +247882, $18.95 TBD Vintages: This red blend for 2016 (the blend can change with each release) comprises syrah (32%), cabernet franc (15%), cabernet sauvignon (18%), merlot (30%), and baco noir (5%). The latter may have resulted in a VQA Ontario designation rather than a VQA Niagara. It's all barrel aged, 65% French oak and 35% US oak for 17 months. It is substantial, reflecting the aromatics and flavour profiles of the grapes used. Cherry-berry tones, fresh spices on the finish, some spine to stand up to hearty food. Cork closure, 13% ABV. Quality/Price rating is 88 points by Dean Tudor of Gothic Epicures.
20.Henry of Pelham Riesling Estate 2017 VQA Short Hills Bench, +557165 Vintages, $19.95: intense riesling in a Rhine style of cool fermentation, with a very off-dry palate but a dry finish (good acid levels on the finish) – broad grapefruit and lemons on the mid-palate, sip or food. 11.2% ABV, twist top, from HOP's oldest Estate vineyards (33+ year old riesling vines). Should also age well. Try with fish that live in water but die in wine. Quality/Price rating is 91 points by Dean Tudor of Gothic Epicures.
21.Sacred Hill Sauvignon Blanc 2018 Marlborough, +489112, $18.95 LCBO General List: a warm and dry summer led to a fruity harvest. The tropical fruit intensity leads to a citric lemony finish for food, typically white fish or seafood. It should be even better next year! 12.5% ABV, RS=5.9 g/L, twist top. The Reserve version appeared in Vintages at three dollars more. Quality/Price rating is 89 points by Dean Tudor of Gothic Epicures.
HOLIDAY FOOD AND DRINK BOOKS IN REVIEW FOR 2018,,
FOOD AND DRINK BOOKS IN REVIEW FOR NOVEMBER 2018 [published monthly since 2000]
By Dean Tudor, Gothic Epicures Writing, deantudor@deantudor.com
These food and wine book reviews are always available at www.deantudor.com and http://gothicepicures.blogspot.ca
Stocking stuffers should be at the very top of everybody's gift list this Holiday season: something affordable from under $10 up to $25 CAD or so, and these can also double as host gifts, being something small and lightweight. Most of the books here are paperbacks. And of course, they can all stuff an adult stocking.
A.Typical for food are:
--SCANDIKITCHEN CHRISTMAS (Ryland Peters & Small, 2018, 160 pages, $26.95 hardbound) is a foodbook by Bronte Aurell, Danish author and restaurateur at ScandiKitchen Cafe. This is her fourth eponymous cookbook for Ryland Peters & Small. These are traditional recipes from Scandinavia for the Christmas holiday season, competing with the Victorian and the Prussian holiday feasts at Christmas time. Typical are glogg (mulled wine) and hygge foods. She introduces the Sandi pantry, and goes into Advent gatherings (with historical context on how Advent is done in Scandinavia), biscuits and breads and cakes, Christmas Eve traditions, and the Yule smorgasbord.
--KOMBUCHA (Ryland Peters & Small, 2018, 96 pages, $19.95 hardbound) is by Louise Avery of LA Brewery in the UK. She, as founder, uses all natural ingredients to brew health-boosting teas. The company supplies Selfridges, Whole Foods, Planet Organic, plus many cafes. Here are 30 preps for naturally fermented and sparkling tea drinks, arranged by four bases: flowers, fruits, veggies, herbs & spices. There is also a long and lengthy primer on brewing basics and kombucha, followed by a UK-US web resources listing.
--CHEESE BALLS (Chronicle Books, 2018,112 pages, $24.95 hardcover) is by Dena Rayess. It takes me back to the 1960s. I must admit that I have never actually created a cheese ball from scratch. I've always made my creations from leftover cheeses after a party, adding cream cheese or some soft cheese, nuts and flavours to the basic leftovers. So here are 40 preps for making a cheese ball from scratch, plus advice on shaping and decorating . A very useful volume for party go-tos, game-day snacks, and picnics.
--CHRISTMAS WITH DICKENS (Cico Books, 2018, 64 pages, $19.95 hardbound) is by Pen Vogler. It has been abstracted from her earlier Cooking with Dickens. This is the Christmas section, with lobster patties, pickled salmon, roast goose, orange and red currant jellies, smoking bishop and punch. There is even a recipe for hand-raised pork pie to keep in the larder for visitors (or escaped convicts). 22 preps in all, followed by a very food bibliography for further reading of Dickens and food.
--THE ARTISANAL KITCHEN: BAKING FOR BREAKFAST, SWEETS & TREATS, PARTY CAKES (Artisan, 2018, 112 pages each, $17.95 each hardback) are three parts of a series by Cheryl Day and Griffith Day, co-owners of the Back in the Day Bakery in Savannah Georgia. Each deals with a specific theme -- there are 33 breakfast recipes for muffins, biscuits, eggs, and other sweet and savoury dishes; there are 33 sweets and treats recipes for cupcakes, brownies, bars and candies; and there are 36 decadent party cake recipes for festive occasions. Warmly illustrated, and with conversion charts.
--I [HEART] PUMPKIN (Ryland Peters & Small, 2018, 144 pages, $19.95 hardbound) is a compilation from RP&S authors pulled together by Alice Sambrook. There are 60 preps, many by Brian Glover (17) and Hannah Miles (9), with the balance by 21 other UK cookbook writers. All are meant for the winter months, with soups, stews, pies and tarts.
--THE OYSTER COMPANION (Firefly Books, 2018, 256 pages, $19.95 flexibound) is by Patrick McMurray, the world champion oyster shucker (Guinness) who owned Starfish in Toronto for over a decade before The Ceili Cottage. The work was originally published in 2007 as Consider the Oyster. It's a great field guide (now completely revised, expanded, and updated) to the complex nature of oysters where tastes will vary over the seasons and location of the beds. It is also a cultural history to the lore and call of the oyster. He compares the differences between some 50 of the more popular varieties found world-wide. With recipes. And it is small and flexible enough to be a portable guide. He's even got an amazing tasting wheel which would freak out the oenophiles.
--FOODIE CITY BREAKS: Europe (Dog 'n' Bone, 2018, 144 pages, $19.95 paperbound) is by Richard Mellor, a UK travel and food writer. It's a succinct guide to 25 of the best cities in Europe for food, with about 10 recommendations for each. France is the heavyweight here with three cities, but Spain and Italy also have three each. So for Bordeaux, budget picks include Le Chien de Pavlov, fine-dining at Garopapilles, modern bistro at Miles, La Cagette for breakfast, bars, places for regional cuisine, wines, cafes, food markets, and so "local secrets" . This is an easily digestible summary of culinary scenes in Europe – the perfect host gift.
--DINNER LIKE A BOSS (Hardie Grant Books, 2018, 152 pages, $28.99 paperbound) is by Katy Holder. It is a collection of some 50 recipes emphasizing quick and easy healthy meals for busy families. These are mainly one pots featuring meat or fish or just veggies with a global slant. There's the bibimbap rice bowl, smoky Mexican chicken burgers, and crunchy fruit crumble.
--BACON BEANS AND BEER (Gibbs Smith, 2018, 128 pages, $22 hardbound) is by Eliza Cross who has written the prime reference work on bacon. This is a guy foodbook, so it should be suitable as a host gift. The intent is to merge bacon and beans into some dish and then pair it with a suitable beer. The range runs from apps through to sweet treats.
--THE AUBERGINE COOKBOOK (Ebury Press, 2018, 112 pages, $$21.99 hardbound) is by Heather Thomas. The front cover promises 50 recipes to feed your obsession, while the back cover promises 60 brand new recipes. Maybe the truth lies in between...Serious cooks know that "aubergines" is UK-talk for "eggplants". Typical preps here are eggplant fritters with honey, Sicilian eggplant pizza, Thai eggplant curry, and Szechuan-spiced eggplant. A good all-round collection gathered within one set of covers.
--DIET CHEATS COOKBOOK (Vermilion, 2018, 128 pages, $21.99 paperbound) is by Heather Thomas who promises us that in this work all your fave meals are made healthier. She's got some easy to follow Green, Amber, and Red food lists, nutrition notes, and concise calorie data for each recipe. Just about every recipe is title "Cheat's something", e.g. Cheat's Buffalo wings, Cheat's hummus, Cheat's tiramisu, and the like. Still, there are 100 guilt-free recipes here worthy of your attention to satisfy your cravings and maybe even lose some weight. You start the day right, go light in the meals, and spend less time in prep work. Hey, it works for me...
--HOW TO SET A TABLE (Ebury/Clarkson Potter, 2018, 128 pages $21.99 hardbound) is a publisher's book, but this time it is a hardbound version of the previous paperback. While the rules for entertaining company have relaxed (but some may say "disintegrated"), you'll still want to know about placement of knives, forks, glasses, napkins, etc. The range is from a last minute get-together through brunches, picnics, and memorable dinners. Consoles and trays are covered, but not trolleys.
--FLATBREAD (Gibbs Smith, 2018, 128 pages, $19.99 hardbound) is by Anni Daulter. The primer is mainly a few types of dough, such as "classic" pizza-like, unleavened pan bread, sourdough, sweet dough (for dessert flatbreads), and toasted nut gluten-free flatbread. Plus, of course, you can always buy naan bread, pita bread, lavash, tortilla, puff pastry, and layered phyllo pastry. But the essence of the work are the toppings, dips and drizzle, which includes a deconstructed BBT (bacon, basil and tomato).
--STUDENT EATS (Ebury Press, 2017, 192 pages, $21.99 softbound) is by Rachel Phipps who promotes easy, affordable good food on a budget. Of course you don't need to be a student, just penurious. All meals are covered: breakfast, lunch, solo dinners, food for friends, drinks. Most food is homemade such as granola. There are chapters for leftovers, pantry meals, some menus for three meals under $20. Of course, it is all written by a former student, now a graduate, with a theme of "how I survived". British orientation, but then, courgette sounds so much better than zucchini. Try the mushroom toasts with tamago ribbons.
--KITCHEN CONFIDANT (Chronicle Books, 2018, 96 pages, $16.95 hardbound) is another publisher's title, being billed as "an indispensable guide for the baker, drinker, and cook". Coverage includes ingredient substitution, metric and avoirdupois conversions, basic tool kits and equipment, and the like. I hate to tell them, but there is really no difference between Large eggs and Extra-Large eggs. At least, not anymore. Have you seen them lately?
--SO YOU THINK YOU'RE A FOODIE? (Dog 'n' Bone, 2018, 128 pages, $19.95 hardbound) is by Alexandra Parsons. It was first published in 2012 and has since been re-titled as above. There are 50 entries looking into the icons of foodism. The range is from searching for the tastiest and most authentic food to elaborate gastro experiences to food bores. Topics include science, salt, Michelin stars, artisan produce, and "mystery" meats. Good for a laugh over the holidays.
--FOR THIS WE LEFT EGYPT? (Flatiron Books, 2017, 2018, 130 pages, $27.99 hardbound) is a humour work by humourists Dave Barry, Alan Zweibel, and Adam Mansbach ("three of the funniest people I've ever created" -- G-D. It's a Passover Haggadah for the Seder. Note: of course, it is a parody. The tome itself is constructed from right to left, with the normal "front cover" being the blurbs on the back cover. As it says, good Jews will no longer have to sit through a lengthy Seder. The authors take you through every step, employing a kosher blowtorch and ending with a celebratory brisket. Lotsa fun reading.
--THE WORLD'S BEST BOWL FOOD (Lonely Planet, 2018, 224 pages, $19.99 paperbound) written by a variety of people and collated by the publisher – it's a collection of 100 one-pot international recipes from bibimbap (Korea) to chicken soup (Algeria) and pozole (Mexico), bigos (Poland), and Eton mess (UK). It's all comforting home-style food, arranged by course. There's something for everyone here.
--POULETS & LEGUMES (Rux Martin, Houghton Mifflin, 2018, 120 pages, $22.50 hardbound) is from Jacques Pepin. These are his favourite chicken and vegetable recipes, drawn from five of his previous cookbooks. The first half deals with chicken: roast, peking-style, supremes, bouillabaisse, chasseur, jardiniere – about 28 in all, ending with roast stuffed cornish hens. The parade of 39 veggie preps includes artichoke hearts, asparagus, broccoli, carrots, pumpkin, spinach – any of which can be used with poultry. A neat little production.
--SIMPLY CITRUS (Gibbs Smith, 2018, 128 pages, $ 19.99 hardbound) is by Marie Asselin. It's a basic work on lemons, limes, orange, mandarin, grapefruit, kumquat, and other varieties, arranged by type after the primer.
--THE PESTO COOKBOOK (Storey Publishing, 2018, 218 pages, $25 paperbound) is by Olwen Woodier, who has written other cookbooks such as the Apple Cookbook and the Peach Cookbook. Here she gives us 116 preps for creative herb combinations. Of course, any time you use herbs, you've maximized the flavour. It is basically a basil-based collection, but she does have 20 pages for making pestos from rosemary, scallions, cilantro, parsley, mint, lemon thyme, fennel, arugula – and others. And of course the adventuresome cook can mix and match and continue to experiment.
--ASIAN TAPAS (Ryland Peters & Small, 2018, 144 pages, $19.95 hardbound) has 60 recipes, with the major credits going to Jordan Bourke, Carol Hilker, Jenny Linford, and Loretta Liu (although 15 writers in all were involved). There is a primer on dough making, and then it is divided by form: parcels, rolls, dumplings, fritters, frys, pancakes, ribs, grills, wings. ,These are Asian small bites and apps, such as Vietnamese chicken and quinoa small bites, sashimi and cucumber bites, green chili bhajis, Chinese duck breast pancakes, beef bulgogi and rice noodle wraps. Something for everyone in the ultimate graze party. Sake anyone?
--DOSA KITCHEN (Clarkson Potter, 2018, 144 pages, $24.99 hardbound) is by Nash Patel and Leda Scheintaub. It's all about a very popular street food in India: thin, rice-and-lentil-based pancakes that can be stuffed with a variety of fillings—even sweets. Dosas are naturally fermented and gluten-free; they can be vegetarian (even vegan) and dairy-free as well. They give us a master batter followed by 50 recipes for stuffings, chutneys, and cocktails. These are 18-inch dosas, although the couple do make 32-inch dosas at their food truck.
--101 AMAZING USES FOR TURMERIC (Familius, 2018, 144 pages, $18.95 paperbound) is by Susan Branson. Turmeric appears to be yet another superfood, and the uses include alleviating illnesses and infections, such as allergies, asthma, cataracts, colorectal polyps, Crohn's disease, lung cancer, alcohol intoxication, common cold, depression, migraine, et al. It is also used for beauty (itchy skin, insect bites, bruises) and arts and crafts (temporary tattoos). Lots of footnotes with impeccable sources.
--101 AMAZING USES FOR GARLIC (Familius, 2018, 144 pages, $18.95 paperbound) is by Susan Branson. Her divisions this time include health, wellness, expunging pests, and unexpected uses. In the latter category you can find its use as an aphrodisiac, disinfecting spray, fishing bait and lures, glue, seasickness, splinters and wreaths. Lots of footnotes with impeccable sources.
--COOKING IN A SMALL KITCHEN (Picador Cookstr Classics, 2018, 257 pages, $21 hardbound) is by Arthur Schwartz. The new Picador series comprises reprints of cookbook classics, with a new foreword that explains why it is being republished. Schwartz's work was published in 1979 and was meant for cramped quarters. The cookbook is both practical and timeless, as Lidia Bastianich noted in her foreword. Schwartz, an amazing food writer and editor in NYC, went on to write six more cookbooks.
--THE CONFIDENT COOK (Picador Cookstr Classics, 2018, 241 pages, $21 hardbound) is by Irena Chalmers, with a new foreword by Anne Willan. The 200 practical preps here use any or more of the five basic cooking methods. Once you've mastered those five, such as poaching, roasting, broiling, you can spin off. A simple beef stew can also become a Mulligan or a bourguignon. Chalmers wrote over 80 cookbooks, but this one is directed to new cooks.
B.Other little books, for beverages, include those on coffee, beer, wine and spirits – and even water:
--H2OH! (The Countryman Press, 2018 ,122 pages, $17.50 hardbound) is by Mimi Kirk, who has also written books about raw foods and smoothies. Water (and hydration) is great she says, but infusions help you drink that water. This all-organic work gives us the tastiest and healthiest infusions of veggies, fruits and herbs. Why pay $6 a bottle when you can make it for a nickel? Plus, you can produce infused ice cubes for other drinks as well. Basil water is a fave of mine, as is strawberry and thyme. Scores of recipes and variations. Neat book
--NIGHTCAP (Chronicle Books, 128 pages, $24.95 hardbound) is by Kara Newman. She's got more than 40 simple cocktails to close out any evening, whether you are looking to keep the night going or soothe yourself to sleep, end a meal with a sweet or a digestif. I want to go to sleep, so I'd try the DejaVu All Over Again (amaro – Aperol -- Lillet) or Pleasant Evening (creme de cassis – Champagne), Well worth looking at for ideas.
--BEER HACKS (Workman Publishing, 2018, 158 pages, $24.95 hardbound) is by Ben Robinson. There are 100 tips, trick, and projects here, including a total beer vacation at Starkenberger Brewery in Austria, making authentic bratwurst by boiling in beer, and getting better sleep with hop flowers rubbed into your pillow. Some tips use wedding rings, others will eliminate coffee stains, yet another will give you luxurious beer hair. Chacun a son gout. This will be for the beer drinking guy....
--SESSION COCKTAILS (Ten Speed Press, 2018, 154 pages, $24.99 hardbound) is by Drew Lazor and the Editors of the Beard winning online drinks site, Punch. It's a worthwhile collection of more than fifty low-alcohol drinks for any occasion, all designed to highlight flavours. Very appropriate for brunches. Most of the drinks are based on sherry, amaro, vermouth, wine and liqueur. There is the Rebujito (sherry, mint, lemon, lime) and the Hop Skip Jump (Cynar, Punt e Mes, lemon, lime). Lazor also offers some tips on stocking the lo-al bar and recreating fave cocktails at low proof (eg., Negroni, Manhattan, Margarita). There are even some advices on making large drinks in batches.
--STUFF EVERY BEER SNOB SHOULD KNOW (Quirk Books, 2018, 144 pages, $10.95 hardbound) is by Ellen Goldstein, who gives us a thumbnail coverage of just about everything in beerland. The basics describe what beers there are, the production process, glasses, tasting beers, storage, draught beer, hosting a tasting, and a large section on resources for further data. There's a lot of good stuff in these few pages – at an affordable price.
--LEMON WITH ZEST (Chronicle Books, 2018, 96 pages, $22 hardbound) is by April White. She's got 40 thirst-quenching recipes for lemon juice and lemon mix refreshments (with or without alcohol). Extremely useful for lemonade stands, picnics, barbecues, and any get-together.. It's arranged by form: liquids, ice pops, sorbets, and granitas.
--TEQUILA: shake, muddle, stir (Hardie Grant Books, 2018, 143 pages, $24.99 hardcovers) is by Dan Jones who has got a string of books on gin and rum. He's got 40 preps here for tequila and mezcal. There's the Teqroni (substitute mezcal for gin), Tequila Mockingbird, Mexican Mojito, and Frozen Mango Margie. Great fun.
--TEQUILA BEYOND SUNRISE (Ryland Peters & Small, 2018, 64 pages, $17.95 hardbound) is by Jesse Estes, a London bartender and son of Tomas Estes, European Tequila Ambassador for the Mexican government. He's got over 40 recipes here for tequila and mezcal-based cocktails on a global scale. Check out Horchata Borracha, Death Flip and Blue Daisy. Hola!
--PROSECCO DRINKING GAMES (Dog 'n' Bone, 2018, 64 pages, $17.95 hardbound) is by Abbie Cammidge who, with her gal friends, have created or refashioned 29 drinking games for millennials. You just pick a game and pour some bubbles. My fave is the Raspberry Ripple where you have to toss berries into your opponent's glass – from a distance. Messy but effective. Any way – it is party time!
--GREAT WHISKEYS. New edition (DK Books, 2018, 384 pages, $19 paperbound) was first issued in 2011 (and was based on WORLD WHISKEYS form 2009). This new edition is based on the 2016 edition of WORLD WHISKEYS. It's a collection of thumbnail profiles of more than 500 of the best whiskeys from around the world. Charles MacLean is again the editor of this user-friendly pocket guide He's got a core of six other global contributors for the tasting notes and photography: each drink has a current label photo and notes covering eligible quaffs. For example, The Glenrothes alone has four entries! The guide even has whiskey tours around producing areas to help plan any whiskey trip.
--THE BARISTA BOOK (Skyhorse Publishing, 2018, 128 pages, $19.99 paperbound) is by Hiroshi Sawada, an award winning coffee barista and latte artist. It was originally published in Japan in 2013 as a coffee lover's companion with brewing tips and over 50 recipes for coffee drinks. Included are lattes, Americanos, cappuccinos, espressos, cafe au laits, and iced drinks (among the principal preps) . A great tool for that coffee lover relative or friend.
--ROSE COCKTAILS (Ryland Peters & Small, 2018, 64 pages, $17.95 hardbound) is by Julia Charles, a UK lifestyle writer-editor. She's got 40 pink-wine based drinks – another way to use rose wine, every style of drink from short to long, still to sparkling, sharp to sweet, and fun to fancy. Bartenders are using rose as a base for more complex drinks. This stocking stuffer is arranged by type: aperitifs, sparklers, spritzers, coolers, slushes, crushes, punches and pitchers. A nifty reference for the warmer times of the year.
--THE WINE LOVER'S APPRENTICE (Skyhorse Publishing, 2018, 160 pages, $21.99 hardbound) is by Kathleen Bershad who runs a wine consultancy business, Fine Wine Concierge; they help clients buy, sell, taste, organize, and learn about wine. This is her WINE 101 book, which covers how to taste, grape varieties, reading restaurant lists and wine store shelves, and having a wine tasting. The rest of the work is a series of profiles for each of the major wine growing areas in the world, plus a useful glossary. Good stuff for the newbie.
--DRINKING DISTILLED (Ten Speed Press, 2018, 170 pages, $22.99 hardbound) is by Jeffrey Morgenthaler, a bar director in Portland OR who has written The Bar Book. This is a basic work about "drinking" - with guidelines to toasting and drinking with a crowd, drinking games, glassware, drinking and driving, hangovers, and barfing. Then he examines what you are drinking: spirits and cocktails. This is followed by when you are drinking: breakfast, brunch, lunch, dinner, special occasions (with appropriate recipes). Next up is where you are drinking: work, bars, home, friend's house, on the road, sporting events. And these are with even more recipes.
--GINSPIRATION (DK Books, 2018, 144 pages, $18.99 hardbound) is by Eric Grossman and Klaus St. Rainer. The material was previously published in larger books dealing with spirits and cocktails. This is the extraction of the gin pages, with the photography. As such, it's a nifty gift for a gin-loving host/hostess. These are some of the best preps for cocktails and infusions, including the martini, French 75, gimlet, gin fizz, gin sling, pink gin, London buck, and more. There is material on equipment, juices, sugars and syrup, as well as ice. The Gin A-Z section covers the wide world range of various styles of bottled gin, with bottle shots. As for the matter of bruising, I'll leave it up to you....
--THE CURIOUS BARTENDER'S GUIDE TO GIN (Ryland Peters & Small, 2016, 2018, 192 pages, $19.95 hardbound) is by Tristan Stephenson, It's an abridgement of his earlier 2016 work The Curious Bartender's Gin Palace. Most of the work is concerned with the history of gin and how gin is made, with about 45 pages of cocktail recipes. Good value for under $20.
--FROM DRAM TO MANHATTAN (Ryland Peters & Small, 2018, 64 pages, $13.95 hardbound) is by Jesse Estes who concentrates on Canadian, Scotch, American, Irish and Japanese whiskys, with relevant local recipes for each type, a total of 40 preps. Covered are old fashioneds, sours, manhattans, juleps, highballs. Great price for a well-illustrated foodbook.
--BEER AND FOOD MATCHING (Dog 'n' Bone, 2014, 2018, 222 pages, $19.95 hardbound) is by Mark Dredge, who goes after the finest foods and the finest craft beers in the world. This is a second edition. The first part of the work covers beer styles, from light through dark. The second part details matching food with beer, with notes on why that match, but no recipes. The last 50 pages is crammed with recipes to use in cooking with beer, such as scotch ale pork or stout beans.
--HUGH JOHNSON'S POCKET WINE BOOK 2019 (Mitchell Beazley, 2018, 336 pages, $18.99 hardbound, $14.99 Kindle ebook) is a guide to wines from all around the world, not just to the "best" wines. It is in its 42nd year. Johnson claims more than 6000 wines and growers are listed. News, vintage charts and data, glossaries, best value wines, and what to drink now are here. His book is arranged by region, with notes on the 2017 vintage and a few details about the potential of 2018, along with a closer look at the 2016. He's got notes on what wines are ready to drink in 2019. Johnson is also moving into food pairing: there is a section on food and wine matching. He also has a listing of his personal 200 fave wines. The Kindle edition is digitally enhanced for word searching, so it often beats a printed index for retrieving data – and it is $4 cheaper! Great purchase....
--A YEAR OF GOOD BEER 2019 PAGE-A-DAY CALENDAR (Workman, 2018, 320 pages, $19.99)
quenches the beer lover's thirst: microbrewery recommendations, beer lore, trivia, labels, vocabulary, tasting notes, beer festivals, and more daily fun. Discover a Colorado ale whose smoky coffee notes lend an almost porter-like aroma profile; a hoppy Brooklyn lager; and a perfect summer aperitif in the burgundy-hued Brombeere Blackberry Gose. Includes beer drinking games (like Buffalo Club, in which you must never be caught drinking with your right hand), recipes for refreshing beer cocktails, and "Hop Lookout" notes (like the smoothly bitter Cashmere, developed by Washington State University in 2013). Some of the beers appear as imports in Canada, but otherwise there are few Canadian brews included. Lights, wheat, lagers, ales, porters, stouts, seasonal beers, and lambrics – they're all here, 165 or so craft beers. If you buy any of the PAD calendars, then you can go online to the website and pick up other, free stuff, at www.pageaday.com.
--A YEAR OF GOOD WINE 2019 PAGE A DAY CALENDAR (Workman, 2018, 320 pages, $19.99)
is similar in set-up. This is from Karen MacNeil, "America's missionary of the vine" (Time magazine). It's like a year-long wine course in a calendar. Adapted from the New York Times bestselling The Wine Bible, with 650,000 copies sold, it features recommendations for the best bottles from around the world, tasting notes, in-the-know wine facts, mouth-watering recipes, and more (Loire-valley French whites, like Sauvignon Blanc, which has an herbal, lime-scented freshness, crisp Gruner Veltliner with grilled fresh asparagus for a light summer dish, tips on spectacular bottles within a budget, wine horoscopes that match each sign with the right wine, and an Ask Karen section—Q&As that address wine queries and curiosities.
--A YEAR OF GOOD WHISKY 2019 PAGE A DAY CALENDAR (Workman, 2018, 320 pages, $19.99) adapted from A Field Guide to Whisky by Hans Offringa, It features 313 entries, including advice on choosing, buying, and drinking whisky like a pro, trivia about the process of aging, distillation, and history. Plus whisky-related quotes ("There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others."—Raymond Chandler); tasting notes; and recommendations—like Macallan 12 Year Old Double Cask, characterized by vanilla, citrus, and light oak, combined with rich fruit, sherry, and spicy wooden notes. It's the perfect gift for anyone with a taste for whisky's ineffable appeal.
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Around this time last year, I pitched a YA novel to my agent, Tina Dubois. I described the novel the way I normally describe my projects: “This is the most batshit thing I’ve ever done, lol.” I’ve used such language to describe my writing for years—it’s weird, it’s quirky, it’s totally banana-pants, the kind of language that echoes criticisms I got from teachers and fellow workshoppers over and over again. “What’s with all the cats and bears and ghosts, Laura?” or “Why don’t you write in order, Laura?” or “Nobody’s going to care about this, Laura.” The work that I thought was my best and most honest others said wasn’t realistic, wasn’t universal, was too weird or too hostile. (“Why do you hate men so much, Laura? Did this actually happen to you, Laura?”) As hard as I try to fight it now, I’m still carrying these criticisms around with me, they have affected me, infected me. I’ve let my insecurities dictate how I discuss my writing. So much so that I’ve regularly sabotaged myself with my own agent, a woman I consider a friend, and a trusted part of my community.
An interesting essay in VQR has been making the rounds: In this essay, writer Lili Loofbourow talks about the ways in which we, as a culture, approach male vs. female work, a way that we instantly sum up the work of women rather than deeply engaging with it. She calls this approach “the male glance, the narrative corollary to the male gaze. We all have it, and it’s ruining our ability to see good art. The male glance is how comedies about women become chick flicks. It’s how discussions of serious movies with female protagonists consign them to the unappealing stable of “strong female characters.” It’s how soap operas and reality television become synonymous with trash. It tricks us into pronouncing mothers intrinsically boring, and it quietly convinces us that female friendships come in two strains: conventional jealousy or… saccharine love…”
She goes on to write that, “When we look at a girl story, most of us go a tiny bit stupid. We fail to see beyond the limits of our own generic expectations…Even when we’re moved by the work ourselves, our assumption, time and again, tends to be that the effects these female texts produce are small, or imperfectly controlled, or, even worse, accidental. The text is doing something in spite of itself.”
I have realized only recently that when I pitch my own work, I go more than a tiny bit wonky. My work is “imperfectly controlled,” i.e., “banana-pants.” Accidentally batshit and unrealistic and non-linear, but hopefully resonant in spite of itself, or rather, in spite of the woman who thought so long about it and worked so hard to write it.
I’m a lifelong feminist. I have been one since I learned that the word “girl” was an insult. To say that I’m utterly horrified by the way I’ve been talking about stories that mean so much to me would be an understatement.
Even worse, the male glance not only hampers our ability to evaluate good art, it also hampers our ability to make good art. My agent just saved me from myself when I handed in a middle-grade novel draft a few weeks ago. She pointed out that in my zeal to critique women who gleefully participate in the subjugation of less powerful women, I sometimes resorted to insulting their bad dye-jobs, their appearance, rather than interrogating their alignment with a powerful system that requires them to throw other women under the bus.
So, the male glance limits everyone’s perception and production of art, including our own. The white gaze does the same thing—limiting art, twisting it, crushing it to fit well-worn, limiting, even damaging tropes about people of color. Toni Morrison wrote about this in her brilliant book Playing in the Dark. But, in the same way the male glance also affects men and their work in ways men can’t always see, the white glance/gaze also limits the white imagination in a way that many white people can’t see in their own work or the work of others. This is what led white audiences to express shock and dismay over the fact that The Hunger Games’s Rue was Black, white Academy members to dismiss the genius of Ava Duvernay’s Selma and Jordan Peele’s Get Out, white reviewers to be confuzzled about the complex lives of people of color in books, especially those written by women of color, and white writers to become tearful and defensive when critiqued about representation (points to, uh, the entire Internet).
While it’s important to see the effects of the white gaze in other’s work, it’s also important to turn a critical eye on our own work. My (white) myopia led me to make the mistake of including a racial slur often levied against Mexican immigrants in my very first middle-grade novel, Lily’s Ghosts. Despite the fact that this language was clearly considered wrong in the world of my novel, despite the fact that I thought I was telling the “truth” about a particular interaction, I didn’t think about how hurtful it might be to young readers, or why I thought it was necessary (it wasn’t). After receiving a heartfelt letter from a boy who told me he loved the story but wanted to know why I’d included this slur, and after conversations with friends and colleagues, I removed the language for the electronic edition. I still cringe when I think about it. Yet this isn’t the only mistake I’ve made, and won’t be the last.
Someone once said that people become storytellers because at some point in their lives, they weren’t heard. I, myself, have spent most of my life feeling like the mythical Cassandra, always telling the truth, but never believed. But you can get stuck there, shrieking at the world, HEAR ME, SEE ME, when you actually have been heard and centered at least part of the time, when the systems in place have benefitted you and your work over the work of other people. Trying to dismantle such systems is unbelievably difficult. As Lili Loofbourow writes, “Generations of forgetting to zoom into female experience aren’t easily shrugged off, however noble our intentions, and the upshot is that we still don’t expect female texts to have universal things to say. We imagine them as small and careful, or petty and domestic, or vain, or sassy, or confessional.”
I don’t believe my work is small or vain, sassy or confessional, but I’m so used to calling it “weird” that I’m not sure what else it is. I have to find new language for it, a new way to talk about it: “If it’s not “batshit,” what is it, Laura?” Lately, I’ve been asking myself a lot more questions. Where have I been complicit in denigrating my own writing or even myself? How many times have I referred to my own successes as sheer luck? How do I pitch my work to others? How do I gauge my own worth financially and otherwise? Where have limited/limiting ideas about girls and women bled into my writing?
I also have to ask myself other questions, questions that might be more difficult to ask and require much more effort to answer: Whose voices haven’t I heard? Where have limited/limiting ideas about people different from me infected my work? How can I express gratitude for all the things that kidlit/teenlit has given me while acknowledging that others have not gotten the same opportunities? When should I step aside and give someone else a chance to speak, and listen as best as I can? Whose voices could I lift up and support? How can I take responsibility for things I say, do or write with openness and thanks instead of defensiveness and handwringing?
One of the cultural scripts that all Americans have been fed is one of rugged individualism, a script that says a real (white) man can save a real (powerless, pretty white) girl, the world and himself with no help from anyone else. But when I think about the community I’m grateful to be a part of, when I think about the ways in which so many thoughtful and engaged women and non-binary folks support one another, even save one another—I know that script is totally batshit.
It will take all of us, together, to rewrite it.
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So, we know from Sothis Ascends that during the 6th century CE, Constantinople was lousy with Arisen. You've got the Azar Devoted with their shadow Church, the Order of Ízft with their secret library under the Hagia Sophia, the First Chorus with their architectural conspiracy, several other large Merets tied up with the chariot teams at the Hippodrome (though some or all of these may have disbanded and/or scattered following the Nika riots), and at least a few Su-Menent who established a presence in the city in the wake of the Plague of Justinian. On top of that, we know that some time after Constantine made Byzantium the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire and a center of Christianity, the Heretic found that the Sesha-Hebsu had attempted to form a functioning government of the Arisen in the city (though their efforts may have been disrupted by one of the Deceived posing as a Su-Menent).
However, according to the "After the Fall" chapter of Dark Eras, by 1453 there were no Arisen in Constrantinople at all. More than that, the city was home to a major nest of Shuankhsen, who deliberately sought to draw Arisen to the city during the course of Mehmed II's efforts to rebuild and repopulate the city, in order to devour them.
Now, I suppose it's possible that over the course of the Byzantine Empire's long decline, the Arisen who had kept their tombs in Constantinople all simply decided to leave of their own free will. The sack of the city during the 4th crusade, its recapture by the Palaiologos dynasty, and the subsequent outbreak of plague in the city might all have prompted Arisen cults to wake up their immortal patrons and advise them to abandon the city.
Nevertheless, it seems odd that the Arisen would have so completely abandoned the city. I have a feeling that there's an untold story here, and perhaps another explaining how the Arisen eventually regained a foothold in the city by the time of the Great War.
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On the more mundane front, both the Fourth Crusade and the Ottoman invasion saw widespread looting and fires that gutted the city. Even without the help of hungry, vengeful Shuankhsen, you have numerous Tombs being plundered twice over the course 200 years.
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Indeedy.
Blame the Order of Izft.
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I would, but I'd feel a fool trying to shake my fist at the heavens and yell "Izft!" I'd probably have to double-check the pronunciation, which would really kill the drama. :P
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Re: What was the last movie you watched?
The first 15 minutes or so of Evil Dead 2 are a quick/dirty remake of the first film.
It doesn't recon them.
In Ash's world, he lost his sister, girlfriend and best friend in that cabin.
It's great to get reactions of people who don't know what's going on. People like "Why is he going back to that cabin with a new girlfriend after what happened in the first film?"
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How to Train Your Dragon 2.
I have kids.
I love this movie too. I have watched the first part of this movie too and that movie is also good.
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Last time i watched The Avengers movie. I love this movie.
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I used to love this cartoon. With 'Bleep' as the boogieguy
Last movie I saw was: Toy Story 3
Great conclusion to the series.
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The live action film was good, if you didn't watch the toned down version. And where the hell is the cartoon these days? I don't recall seeing a dvd for it anywhere.
Jem & The Holograms was another cartoon similar to Josie, from what I hear.
Rumor has it they're doing Toy Story 4.
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I never knew about that live action film up until now. Might check it out.
The cartoon you can find on ebay, but is quite expensive.
Sincerely hope they don't milk it.
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Saw The Martian last night.
Excellent film. Perfect balance of humor and action. Kept me engaged the entire time. I have not read the book, but if the film is half as good as the book, the book should be awesome.
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Great movie. Right up there with Mystery Team, which i also just recently saw a few months ago.
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Watched Primer.
Great film about time travel, but it's really complicated
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Watched 2 Broke Girls on TV. It's lowbrow, but it makes me laugh.
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Six-String Samurai
Of all the Mad Max-Wizard of Oz-Sixth Sense-Highlander mashups out there, this one is definitely my favorite.
Featuring the maybe/maybe not wandering spirit of Buddy Holly as a desert phantom fighting an eternal struggle to preserve Rock and Roll against the onslaught of Pop, Hip Hop, Metal, and Communism, this low budget indie succeeds with Style and Concept, even when saddled with a heavy dose of "My Next Door Neighbor" acting performances.
The events of the story are open to interpretation, of course. This film sits firmly in the middle of the Surrealism genre. Other viewers take it more literally. But I prefer it the way I see it.
Here's a gif I made to give you a tiny sample of the content.
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
Loved it because it was Star Wars. The real Star Wars, with no pod races and no Jar-Jar.
The intelligent part of my brain has been trying to tell me for 3 days now that the script could suck a golf ball through a garden hose.
But I loved it.
Because it's Star Wars.
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This is the worst movie ever made.
If an enormous meteorite destroyed France, all those other 70 million deaths would be a small price to pay if it meant obliterating this film's creator.
Paranormal Whacktivity...
So incredibly bad it becomes great.
Saw together with a mate, we laughed so hard just because of how shitty it was made. I recommend it to see in group with lots of booze, you'll have fun.
Terminator: Genisys
The actors performed their parts well. The action is choreographed in a reasonably entertaining manner. The visual effects are above average. The camerawork is pretty nice. But...
This is an all-timer of a bad script. Whoever wrote it should definitely be banned from the film industry forever.
I can't think of anything to complain about with this movie. I just found it a little dull. However, I have no emotional attachment to the character of Wolverine. I suppose fans love this film. Review scores for it are very good. I'd like to see this creative team tackle another property.
So you found it dull, but you can't complain about it?
That is a riddle.
Nobody complains about crackers. They're not offensive to the taste buds.
Yet, I think it's perfectly legitimate to call them "dull".
Such is The Wolverine.
Guess that makes sense
Star Wars The Force Awakens on IMAX 3D - Finally.
Felt like Star Wars, which was a big plus (main issue with Abrams' Star Trek). Simple Hero's Journey plot with characters not bogged down by needless complexities (minus a slightly ambiguous ending) and who had fairly straightforward relationships was a breath of fresh air. The action sequences were real and way better than the cg videogame platforming crap that plagued the prequels and every single Peter Jackson Hobbit movie. Was not a fan of Spoiler:
Abrams' hard-on for superweapons, destroying stuff that would have been cool to revisit at some point #NeverForgetVulcan
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As for your spoiler.
I will say, Abrams did not write the film. The writer on TFA was the same guy that wrote Empire Strikes Back and Raiders of the Lost Arc.
So, the idea to include something like that and then get rid of it in the same film isn't really... new for this series.
But, I was glad it didn't devolve into a series of political debates and awful CGI locations.
And, while there was a rescue element to the film... it wasn't as bad as it was in A New Hope.
Or hell, the original trilogy in general. Ep 4, save the princess. Ep 5, save Han and the princess. Ep 6, Save Han.
Originally Posted by Damien_Azreal
I wasn't aware of that and should have checked this. I was under the impression that these were well established in canon or that may have featured in other non-canon media (like the Jedi Knight games). It's not bad at all for stuff that's newly introduced.
A show about people who hate themselves.
For people who hate themselves.
I suspect Starz committed to this series based solely on that one award-winning episode of Breaking Bad from the creator (that's why I tried it out). But this isn't entertainment. It's just a bunch of rotten people wallowing in misery. There are no protagonists. No one to care about. It's no wonder there won't be a second season.
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Ubuntu, SUSE Linux, and Fedora will all be available to install directly from the Windows Store, making it easy to run Linux apps on any Windows 10 device. The Linux installations will run in a virtualized environment side by side with Windows, with the same command-line utilities available that you’d normally have with a full installation.
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A YouTuber has recreated the Atari 2600 games console – by building a virtual version of the device’s hardware out of Minecraft blocks.
Seth Bling, from Seattle, described his project online in a video.
The ones and zeroes used by computers as the basis for all programming are represented by alternating blocks – either dirt or stone.
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Fake news detector plug-in developed
As pressure mounts on firms such as Google, Facebook and Twitter to do more to tackle fake news, some are taking things into their own hands.
Technologist Daniel Sieradski has developed a plug-in – known as BS Detector – that flags up “questionable” websites on Facebook and Twitter.
The plug-in – has appeared in dozens of news feeds, leading some to think it was an official Facebook feature.
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For the past month, saying “Google” is the way I’ve been turning off my alarm, ever since being sent a review unit of Google Home, the new smart assistant.
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"It is the province of the familiar, to diffuse chearfulness and ease--to open the heart of man to man, and to beam a temperate sunshine upon the mind."
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Forum » SpaceEngine » Science and Astronomy Discussions » The scale of the universe
The scale of the universe
dontpanic Date: Wednesday, 11.07.2012, 13:29 | Message # 16
No, I don't think nothing is infinite, nothing is just that, NOTHING. It doesn't exist, so it can't be either finite or infinite. Space is not nothing, space, or more accurately, spacetime, is part of the universe, which was created as a result of the big bang.
Cael Date: Wednesday, 11.07.2012, 14:47 | Message # 17
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Well, nothing might be exactly that - nothing. But given that something (or nothing) is nothing, isn't it equally infinite in size? Do you have a point of nothing? Or does "nothing" take up the entire nothingness?
I'm not sure what answer I'd give myself, mind you.
Nothing doesn't take up anything, because it doesn't exist. Nothing is not infinite, it's just not there. You can't refer to nothing as an object or entity, it is more like a state. Nothing WAS before the big bang. Nothing no longer IS. That's it.
By saying that nothing is nothing, I meant not that nothing is something, but that nothing is just what the word says: A lack of anything.
Pretty confusing stuff...
Talisman Date: Wednesday, 11.07.2012, 19:16 | Message # 19
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As humans we can't really define anything correctly, why does nothing not take up anything? How does nothing not exist? It is nothing, it was there before there was something, it had to have existed. There was something before the big bang, some sort of mechanic that caused it and caused time to start, it didn't just happen just because. It was caused by something we can't understand whether it's quantum mechanics or the laws of physics. But it's possible we will never find out what caused it.
There has to be some sort of "media" or canvas for the universe to be created on, and expand onto. Whether this is a completely infinite amount of nothingness expanding in all directions, we don't know.
Edited by Talisman - Wednesday, 11.07.2012, 19:17
HarbingerDawn Date: Thursday, 12.07.2012, 03:43 | Message # 20
As humans we can't really define anything correctly, why does nothing not take up anything?
We can correctly define anything that we choose to; concepts have no objective definition, they are human abstractions. The word nothing means non-existence. It is not a thing, it is not even a state, it is a lack of both of those.
There was something before the big bang, some sort of mechanic that caused it and caused time to start, it didn't just happen just because.
Probably so. It could have been that the Big Bang singularity burst forth from another universe, maybe as a byproduct of its physical laws, maybe as an accident from some kid's science experiment. Or maybe it was something completely different.
There has to be some sort of "media" or canvas for the universe to be created on, and expand onto.
Possibly, not necessarily. There's no particular evidence to say that it did, and it's certainly possible to imagine scenarios in which it did not. So there's not really any reason to take a stand on that issue.
DoctorOfSpace Date: Thursday, 12.07.2012, 05:29 | Message # 21
There was something before the big bang, some sort of mechanic that caused it and caused time to start, it didn't just happen just because. It was caused by something we can't understand whether it's quantum mechanics or the laws of physics. But it's possible we will never find out what caused it.
I think we are already on the verge of understanding where the universe came from. The laws of physics pretty much show the universe quite possibly came from, well, nothing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAnrYnMxIGo
Not proven entirely but it does make quite a bit of sense.
There are quite a few videos of talks that Lawrence Krauss has given and they're quite interesting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdUYw59ztyw
Edited by DoctorOfSpace - Thursday, 12.07.2012, 05:30
dontpanic Date: Thursday, 12.07.2012, 13:58 | Message # 22
That's a pretty interesting discussion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUe0_4rdj0U&feature=related
Talisman Date: Thursday, 12.07.2012, 17:51 | Message # 23
That was a very good video, but you realize what he said right? Quantum mechanics make "nothingness" unstable.
Which means quantum mechanics existed before the big bang and as he said, quantum mechanics caused the big bang to happen.
Which means quantum mechanics existed before the big bang and as he said, quantum mechanics caused the big bang to happen. cool
Boggles the mind a bit doesn't it?
Talisman Date: Saturday, 14.07.2012, 07:16 | Message # 25
Indeed, I really do hope we figure out more at least in my life time. Existence is such a strange but awesome concept.
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This catalogue contains the wide range of our products, available through Sirius > Products. We have put the productsinto one of the following categories, to make it easier for you to find exactly what you are looking for: ECSTACY: 100% Herbal, Natural, Safe and Legal!!!! MOOD SUPPLEMENTS (Smart Pills & Capsules) GUARANA BOTANICAL AND HISTORICAL BACKGROUND MAGIC HERBS, PURE by Sirius > Products® MAGIC HERBS, MIXED by Sirius > Products® These categories are preceded by background information on the products in this category. For instance, ‘GUARANA DRINKSAND FOOD’ is preceded by information on its history and its botanical background.
Quite thorough is the background information on ‘SMART PRODUCTS’. We look at the properties and functions of numerousvitamins, minerals, amino acids and chemical substances within the body, like neurotransmitters and enzymes.
In the back of the catalogue you can find a thorough explanation of MAO-inhibitors. A generic term for all those substances thatinhibit the MAO enzyme, that is produced within your body. This is very important information; for it refers to substances that arepresent in certain herbs, plants and herbal extracts that form the base of a number of our products. It concerns products of thefollowing categories: ‘ECSTASY: 100% Natural, Legal and Safe’, ‘NATURAL SPEED’, and APHRODISIACS.
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ECSTASY: 100% Herbal, Natural, Safe and Legal!!!!!
We would like to start this section with two of the three real brain-invaders made by Sirius> Products. The two following ones arereal mind blowing natural ecstasies: Eclipse® and Kryptonite®. The third one is a powerful natural speed and can therefore befound in the section on herbal speeds, and named: the Force®. Both Eclipse® and the Force® contain sida cordifolia; Kryptonite®contains sida acuta. These related plants are both native to the tropical and subtropical areas of India. The active substances ofthis plant include a few phenylthylamines, like ephedrine and a few tryptamines. The chemical structure is somewhat similar tothat of adrenaline (epinephrine), only ephedrine, unlike adrenaline, is also effective when taken orally. For this reason, ephedrineacts as an upper. Especially highly concentrated extracts act quite similar to amphetamines like speed This is not surprising, forspeed was discovered as scientists were searching for the formula for a synthetic version of ephedrine. Presently, a syntheticversion of ephedrine does exist, only it is not tolerated (digested) as well as natural ephedrine by many.
VOYAGER® (4 capsules)
Voyager®is a spectacular new formula in the range of herbal ecstasies. Voyager® consists of a revolutionary new formula that
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Contains: 4 capsules (2-4 doses). Each capsule contains: 450mg. Sida Cordifolia
extract, 10mg. St. Johnsworth extract, 50mg. L-Tyrosine, 50mg.
Aminoacid-derivate,10mg. Nicotineacid, 10mg. Pyridoxal-5-fosfaat.
ECLIPSE® (4 capsules)
The herbal Space Invader; You won’t believe your brain!
Eclipse® is a classic product in the range of ‘smart candy’. It produces an entirely different effect from the existing natural
ecstasies that are based on ephedra. Eclipse is designed especially for the ‘party hardies’. Eclipse® is ‘The Herbal Space
Invader’. Its’ effects can best be described as a mix of the effects of ‘E’ end ‘C’. However, after the effects of Eclipse® wear of,
you will not get the notorious feeling of being burned out. Eclipse® is a strong upper. It will give you a great buzz: a feeling of
being exited and tingly all over your body. Take 1 capsule for a nice euphoric feeling and 2 for the total ‘Space Invasion’. Do not
underestimate its effects and start out with only 1 capsule to test your response.
Contains: 4 capsules (2-4 doses). Each capsule contains 500 mg of Sida Cordifolia extract (10%) in a base of malodextrin and
magnesium stearate; 25mg of Pyroglutamic acid; 50mg of L-glutamic acid; 50mg of L-Tyrosine; 25 mg of L-glutamic acid; 25mg of
Phosphatidylcholine; 100mg of Spirulina microalgae and 4mg of Pyridoxine.
Warning: Do not use if pregnant or nursing, suffering high blood pressure or a heart disease, thyroid disease, diabetes, an
enlarged prostate gland. Phenylketonuretics should not take this product. Do not combine with alcohol, MAO-inhibitors (see listing
MAO-inhibitors) or any prescription drugs. Do not drive motorized vehicles or operate machines after taking Eclipse.
Kryptonite® (4 capsules)
Fly like a bird, Thunder like a train, Feel like a rocket!
Kryptonite® is a product that, when it was introduced, shook the world of herbal ecstasies. It distinguishes itself from all the other
alternatives for the ‘Love pill’ of the 90’s by its unique composition of substances that work synergistically to produce an effect that
is unbelievably close to the real thing from the early years. Kryptonite® gives you a super dose of energy, a Fantastic and excited
high and tingles all over. Moreover Kryptonite® has a mind-altering (psychedelic) effect. Take 1 capsule for a warm euphoric
sensation, 2 capsules will provide the full super-Kryptonite®-effect. Do not underestimate the strength of Kryptonite® and start out
with one capsule to test your response.
Contains: 4 capsules (2-4 doses). Each capsule contains: 350mg Sida Acuta extract (10% standardized); 100mg Rivea
corymbosa seeds (powdered); 100 Maytenus Ehrifolia extract; 25 mg Phenylalanine; 25mg L-Tyrosine; 12,5mg Pyroglutamine.
enlarged prostate gland. . Phenylketonuretics should not take this product. Do not combine with alcohol, MAO-inhibitors (see
listing MAO-inhibitors) or any prescription drugs. Do not drive motorized vehicles or operate machines after taking Kryptonite.
STIMULATOR® (4 capsules)
The Lovevibrator
Stimulator is an outstanding newcomer in the field of “smartcandies”. Its effect is totally new and especially designed for party
lovers. Stimulator® is “The Lovevibrator”. Its effect can best be described as a synergy of euphoric energy and sexual excitement.
Stimulator® is a very strong upper. It provides you with a feeling of warmth and sensuality and a tingly feeling flowing throughout
your whole body. Stimulator® contains four capsules. Take one capsule for a nice euphoric feeling and two capsules for the full
on “Lovevibration”. Never underestimate the effects. It is advisable to start with one capsule only, to test your response.
Contains: 175mg. Sida Cordifolia extract (6% standardised), 75mg Yohimbe extract (8% standarised), 2,5 mg bioperine, 25mg L-
Arginine, 25mg L-Tyrosine, 40mg natriumpangamaat.
Warning: STIMULATOR® is a nutritional supplement and should used as such. STIMULATOR® does not make any health
claims. Usage, other than indicated, is not recommended and entirely at your own risk! KEEP OUT OF REACH FROM
CHILDREN. Do not use in case of pregnancy or when nursing. STIMULATOR® should not be used when you taking MAO-
inhibitors, anti-depressants or ephedrine containing prescription drugs. Persons with a heart condition, high blood pressure,
diabetes a prostate disorder or herpes should not take this product. Do not combine STIMULATOR® with heavy physical
exercise. Do not drive motorized vehicles or operate machines after taking STIMULATOR®. Discontinue use immediately in case
of nervousness, sleeplessness, reduced appetite, and tremor or heart palpitations. Always consult a physician in case of doubt!
EXITER® (4 capsules)
E-xpect the un-E-xpected; Get E-xited, the only difference: it’s 100% natural!!!
A powerful, natural stimulant, mild aphrodisiac and euphoric blast of energy. This strong upper gives you shivers up and down the
spine. Take 1 or a maximum of 2 capsules for a euphoric amphetamine like sensation. The ephedrine is 1oo% natural and
extracted from the Chinese ephedra plant, also known as ma huang.
Side effects: Do not use if pregnant or nursing, suffering high blood pressure or a heart disease, thyroid disease, diabetes, an
enlarged prostate gland. Do not combine with alcohol, MAO-inhibitors (see listing MAO-inhibitors) or any prescription drugs.
Fast Forward® (4 or 10 tablets)
Getting uplifted, keep coming up strong!
The next morning you’ll feel great, for it also rewinds you smoothly.
This natural upper, tingling stimulant, euphoriant and aphrodisiac is the perfect formula for a safe, buzzing energy night. This
formula has been developed and is produced by Sirius > Products®, and has soon become one of our most popular products.
Each tablet contains ma huang (ephedrine), guarana, fo ti tien and gotu kola. It is available in boxes of 10 and sachets of 4
caplets. A dose is 3 to 4 caplets. Since each person is different, you should start out with 2 only and test your response.
Side effects: Do not use if pregnant, lactating, suffering high blood pressure or a heart condition, or if taking MAO-inhibitors. Do
not combine with other stimulants, medicines or excessive alcohol consumption. Not fit for those who are extremely sensitive to
caffeine or ma huang (ephedra). Do not take more than 6 tablets within 24 hours.
Horn-E® (10 tablets)
More dance, better sex
For long, hot nights filled with passion. This natural ecstasy was designed by Sirius > Products®. It contains extracts of yohimbe
bark and ma huang (ephedra). It also contains ascorbic acid (vit. C), which was added to increase and improve the effects of
yohimbe. The extract of yohimbe bark is the most important ingredient. It is taken from the African yohimbe trees. Several West
African tribes use the yohimbe bark as a holy sacrament for weddings and other rituals. Yohimbin, the active ingredient of the
bark, is one of the most popular aphrodisiacs in the world, that has even been recognized by established science, who are usually
very reluctant to recognize any aphrodisiac. Yohimbin, or medicine on a yohimbin base, are often prescribed as a remedy for
impotence, but even the more ‘potent’ among us will feel how it fuels their sexual pleasure with extra sparks. In man it can extend
the erection(s) and several men and women have reported that yohimbe increases their orgasms in number and/or intensity. We
combined this potent aphrodisiac with ma huang to double the pleasure and to increase your stamina. Horn-E® will give you a
warm sensations that flow trough the body and find their way to your body’s extremes until you shiver with pleasure. It intensifies
every touch or stroke. One dose equals 2 to 4 capsules, depending on how sensitive you are to the substance. The maximum
dose is 6 tablets. If you take a small dose of Horn-E® (1 or 2 tablets) during two days and you take a large dose of two to 4 (max.
6) on the third day you will obtain the maximum effect.
Side effects: People who have a kidney a heart condition, hypothyroidism, high blood pressure or laboured ventilation, and
women who are pregnant or lactating should not take this product. Horn-E® inhibits the MAO-enzyme; do not combine with other
MAO-inhibitors prescription drugs, narcotics, amphetamines or other stimulants or with tyramine containing foods (see listing
MAO inhibitors). Do not combine with excessive alcohol consumption. People who are sensitive to caffeine and/or ma huang
(ephedrine) should not take this product.
LIQUID E®
Over 30 ingredients; mix it, drink it, feel it.
Liquid E works as a powerful and pleasant upper, a euphoriant and an aphrodisiac; in other words: its a turbo-buzz! That is what
makes us so proud to say that this successful formula is developed and produced by Sirius > Products®.
Among many other herbs and spices and other natural substances this buzzing drink contains guarana, ma huang, ginko biloba,
bissy nut (=cola nut), ginseng, liquorice, and ascorbic and citric acid.
Side effects: Do not take if pregnant or lactating, suffering from depression, psychoses hypertension, a heart or long condition or
when taking MAO-inhibitors. Do not use in combination with other stimulants, medicine or lots of alcohol. Not fit for those who are
extremely sensitive to caffeine, or ma huang.
HERBAL SPEED
The FORCE® (4 capsules of 750mg Sida Cordifolia extract: 2-4 doses)
Use the Force.
The Force is the latest in the range of natural speeds. It is a new formula that is on the extract of a sida cordifolia plant and not on
ephedra, the basis for most other similar products that are now available on the market. The use of sida cordifolia makes that the
Force is an extremely strong upper that provides you an exciting high and warm tingles up and down the spine. Take 1 capsule
for a strong euphoric high and 2 for the maximum explosion of strength. Do not underestimate the effects and start with 1 capsule
to test your own response.
Contains: 4 capsules (2-4 doses). Each capsule contains 750mg of sida cordifolia extract (10% standardized).
enlarged prostate gland. Do not combine with alcohol, MAO-inhibitors (see listing MAO-inhibitors) or any prescription drugs. Do
not drive motorized vehicles or operate machines after taking The Force®.
BIONIX®; (6, 30 & 75 caps a 533 mg. Ephedra extract: 2-4 doses)
Power To The People.
One of Sirius’ bestsellers! An incredibly strong herbal energizer of pure ephedra, a plant that has ephedrine as its active
ingredient. Ephedrine is a strong natural stimulant, energizer and an upper its effects could be compared to those of
amphetamines.
enlarged prostate gland, in combination with excessive amounts of alcohol or if taking MAO-inhibitors (see listing MAO-inhibitors)
or any prescription drugs.
Sexual Stimulants; Aphrodisiacs
The Lovevibrator.
lovers. Stimulator is “The Lovevibrator”. Its effect can best be described as a synergy of euphoric energy and sexual excitement.
Stimulator is a very strong upper. It provides you with a feeling of warmth and sensuality and a tingly feeling flowing throughout
your whole body. Stimulator conbtains four capsules. Take one capsule for a nice euphoric feeling andtwo capsules for the full-on
“Lovevibration”. Never underestimate the effects. It is advisable to start with one capsule only, to test your response.
Ingrediënts per capsule: 175mg. Sida Cordifolia extract (6% standarised), 75mg Yohimbe extract (8% standarised), 2,5 mg
bioperine, 25mg L-Arginine, 25mg L-Tyrosine, 40mg natriumpangamaat.
For long, hot nights filled with passion. This natural ecstasy was designed by Sirius > Products®. It contains ectracts of yohimbe
warm sensations that flow trough the body and find their way to your body’s extremes until you shiver with pleasure. It
intensifies every touch or stroke. One dose equals 2 to 4 capsules, depending on how sensitive you are to the substance. Themaximum dose is 6 tablets. If you take a small dose of Horn-E® (1 or 2 tablets) during two days and you take a large dose of twoto 4 (max. 6) on the third day you will obtain the maximum effect. Side effects: People who have a kidney a heart condition,hypothyroidism, high blood pressure or laboured ventilation, and women who are pregnant or lactating should not take thisproduct. Horn-E® inhibits the MAO-enzyme; do not combine with other MAO-inhibitors prescription drugs, narcotics,amphetamines or other stimulants or with tyramine containing foods (see listing MAO inhibitors). Do not combine with excessivealcohol consumption. People who are sensitive to caffeine and/or ma huang (ephedrine) should not take this product.
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In this catalogue, more to the back, you will find more detailed information on the substances present in these products, in achapter titled ‘BACKGROUND INFORMATION’.
Remedy®: After All (12 capsules)
For mental and physical recovery from a night of smoking, drinking and other forms of unhealthy pleasure.
These capsules contain a It contains a wide range of carefully mixed vitamins, minerals and amino acids. Many of these
ingredients are antioxidants and free radical scavengers that reduce the negative effects of poisonous substances, like nicotine
and alcohol, speeding up recovery the next day.
Use/dosage: Take 4 capsules at the end of the night, before going to sleep.
Side effects: These capsules contain vitamin B3, or niacin. Some people may experience a temporary flush from vitamin B3. This
never lasts very long and is completely harmless. If you don’t like to have this flush, you can reduce it by taking the capsules on a
full stomach and/or by taking the capsules in stages instead of all four at once (2 before going out, and two afterwards).
After-E
For mental and physical recovery from chemical XTC.
Contains: L-tryptophan*, L-tyrosine*(see: Amino Acids), and vitamin B6*.
After-C
For mental and physical recovery from cocaine.
Contains: L-tyrosine*(see: Amino Acids), Vitamin C* (Ascorbic acid) and B6* (pyridoxine).
D-Stress®
Natural prozac alternative > relaxes body and soul > 1 box = 21 caps = 7 doses.
Contains: kava-kava, vitamin C*, B1*, B3 *(niacin), B6*, Inositol* (muscle sugar), calcium and magnesium. This formula combinesthe relaxing calming qualities of kava kava, with a supplement of the vitamins, necessary in order to maintain a good immunesystem during times of stress, and the long lasting physical energy provided by inositol (without increasing the insulin level).
The Mooddoctor®
The Mood Doctor is the latest ‘moodsupplement’, by Sirius> products. The main ingredient of this revolutionary formula is 5-
Hydroxytryptofaan, an amino acid that in the brain is directly being turned into serotonin. To this ingredient has been added a
powerful extract of St. Johnsworth, which increases the serotonin-level in the blood even more. The blend of these two
ingredients makes The Mood Doctor a true ‘serotonin-bomb’. So if you are feeling down, languid or depressed, take The Mood
Doctor and discover that soon you’ll feel much more alive and cheerful. Furthermore, The Mood Doctor is ideal for people who
experience problems with sleeping. Take 4 capsules of The Mood Doctor just before you go to bed and you’ll sleep deep and
calm. Warning: Stimulator is a nutritional supplement and should only be used as such. Stimulator does not make any health
claims. Usage, other than indicated, is not recommended and
entirely at your own risk! Keep out of reach from children! Do not use in case of pregnancy or when nursing. Anyone using MAO-
inhibitors or other antidepressants should consult their physician before using 5-HTP. Contains: 30 capsules.
Contains: 5-OH-Tryptofaan, 50mg; pyridoxal-5-fosfaat,10 mg; St. Johnsworth extract, 10mg; inositol-hexa-nicotinaat, 67 mg;
magnesium hydroxide, 122 mg; calcium citraat, 356 mg.
Use/Dosage: Take 1 to 4 capsules per day with water or soda.
The facts on: Guarana
Botanical and Historical background
The Guarana plant is a woody climbing plant that grows in the tropical forests of the Amazon Basin. It has yellow flowers that turn
into fruits each carrying three nutty brown seeds. These guarana seeds are dried and roasted for six hours before they can be
used. Indian tribes of the Amazon basin have been using guarana for many centuries. The Quarami tribe, for instance, used it to
fight bowel complaints, and the Maues always have and still do benefit from its potent therapeutic properties. Many South
American natives harden guarana powder and turn it into an eatable rod. They carry these rods around and nibble on them,
whenever they need a substitute for food. Many Indians are capable of travelling as long as two or three days in a row, with the
guarana rod as their source of energy!!!
Nutritional qualities
Guarana is a high-energy source that is used to increase alertness, fights fatigue, control appetite, ease muscle cramps and calm
nervous tension, and it is an excellent mood elevator. Guarana is also used as an aphrodisiac and as a tonic against hangovers
and menstrual pains.
The active ingredient of the seeds, called guaranin, is almost identical to caffeine. The percentage of guaranin (caffeine) in aguarana seed is about 4-5%, which is about three times as high as the caffeine content of normal coffee beans. However, unlikethe instant and addictive kick or a sudden feeling of anxiety that caffeine may result into, guarana is absorbed by the body muchmore gradually. That is why, compared to a beverage containing caffeine, the stimulating effect of a guarana beverage lasts twiceas long and is much more relaxing. Moreover it does not cause stomach and bowel complaints (e.g. cramps) like caffeine maycause.
GUARANA CAPS ‘N POWDERS
Guarana pur
A strong energizer of 100% pure guarana in powdered form (5gr. or 100 gr.). Mix two teaspoons in a glass of cold water, milk or
juice.
Guarana pur plus
A strong and lasting energizer of powdered guarana, vitamins and the amino acids: phenylalanine* and taurine* (see list amino
acids). Mix two teaspoons in a glass of cold water, milk or juice. (weight: 150gr.)
Guarana caps
A box of 100 guarana capsules(500mg a piece), convenient for those who spend a lot of their time traveling or who are always in
a hurry.
Guarana; Sirius> Products® (50 gr. of pure powdered guarana) (see: MAGIC HERBS by Sirius > Products®)
MAGIC HERBS by Sirius > Products®
Let us first explain these two terms:º Alkaloids are the nitrogenous products of the plant’s metabolism. They are the natural organic bases of many green plants,characterized by their specific physiological action or toxicity. Usually, one plant contains not one but several, closely relatedalkaloids. The most famous examples of alkaloids are: ephedrine, strychnine, nicotine, codeine and morphine.
º Lactones are a structural class of chemicals similar to alkaloids, thus bases of organisms characterized by their specificphysiological action or toxicity.
Fo Ti Tien (= ho shou wu) (polygonum multiflorum)
This Chinese herb is a tonic for the nervous system, the liver, the kidneys, blood and the blood vessels. First, we would like to
specify exactly which plant we are referring to, for in the West, there seems to be some confusion about this plant. In China the
name fo ti tien refers to a different plant than this one, namely: hydrocotyle asiatica menor. This plant is also available in Western
countries, where, strangely enough, it is also called fo ti tien; somewhere in the past there must have been a Western herbalist
who confused the two, leaving us with the mess. The plant that we are referring to here, polygonum multiflorum, is called ‘ho shou
wu’ in China (are you still with us?). Luckily enough, this mix up is not such a big deal, because the properties of the hydrocotyle
asiatica menor and the polygonum multiflorum are almost equal.
Effects: It is a nerve tonic, a relaxant and a memory enhancer. Moreover it is a tonic for the liver, kidneys and blood (prevents
blood clots and lowers blood pressure) and it strengthens the blood vessels. It is considered a rejuvenating tonic that increases
fertility and sexual potency and improves the metabolism. Animal’s studies showed that it counteracts tumor growth. These effects
only apply to long-term regular use of this product.
Use/dosage: Boil in water for 10 minutes before drinking; 1 teaspoon, daily.
Side effects: none
Damiana (turnera diffusa or turnera aphrodisiaca)
Family: Turneraceae
The leaves of a shrub native to the tropical parts of America, can be smoked or made into a tea. It was well known among the
Aztecs who used it as a tonic and a remedy for impotence.
Active ingredients: the alkaloid damianien.
Effects: It is a relaxant and a mild aphrodisiac that produces a marihuana-like high. Regular but moderate use has a tonic effect
on the sexual organs and is said to regulate the hormonal balance in females.
Dosage/use: Make tea by adding two heaping tablespoons of dried Damiana leaves to 1/2 liter of boiling water, and allow boiling
for 15 min, or smoking from a pipe. Since the smoke is harsh on the lungs it is advisable to use a water pipe.
Side effects: Frequent use and extremely high doses may be harmful to the liver.
Ephedra (= Ephedra Sinica or Ma Huang)
Ma Huang* (Ephedra Sinica*), is the Chinese denomination of this plant that the Chinese have been using as a natural stimulant
for over 5000 years.
Active ingredient: ephedrine
Effects: Ephedra works as an energizer and a stimulant; it produces a clear mind and increases stamina. The active ingredient of
Ma Huang, ephedrine, has been proven to act as a natural energetic factor that turns body fat into heat, helping you to loose
weight in a natural way. Finally, ephedrine has a relaxing effect on the airways, which makes it suitable for the treatment of
Use/dosage: Put in water and leave to boil for 10 minutes before drinking; max. 1 teaspoon per person. Note that other products
that contain much higher concentrations of efedrine are strong stimulants; they are not suitable for daily consumption in order to
loose weight!!
Side effects: May cause insomnia, raised blood pressure and or heart rate, anxiety, cold shivers. Ephedra inhibits the
MAO enzyme; do not combine it with other MAO inhibitors (see listing Mao inhibitors) (It is important to realize that certain otherproducts with a high ephedrine content are stimulants. These are pretty strong uppers that work very stimulating. They arecertainly not designed to be used as a dietary supplement to induce weight loss or to reduce the symptoms of asthma!!!!!!) There are other types of ephedra plants that grow in other parts of the world. Some of them are the ingredients of certain
products; therefore we would like to mention them also:
Ephedra Nevadensis (=Mormon tea)
This plant grows in the desserts in the south-western part of the USA. Its effects are similar to the Asian version, only milder. This
plant, the Mormons use as a stimulant. To them, it is a good alternative to coffee, because their religion does not allow them to
drink coffee.
Ephedra Pachiclada
Among other areas, this type of ephedra grows in Afghanistan. The people there put it in their milk and boil it before drinking it.
Ephedra Distachya (Dutch: zeedruif)
This is the European version. It acts similar but not as strong.
* For more information on ephedrine, see: ephedrine under Background Information on Nutritional Supplements -> OtherSubstances.
Betelnoot (=Betel nut) (=piper betle) (Areca catechu)
Family: Palmaceae (palm family)
This is a large seed of the betel palm, a tall South Asian palm tree that can reach 20 meter in height. In Asia it is chewed in
combination with roasted chalk, and sometimes with a few other herbs (chalk and saliva help to release the active substance).
Millions of Asians enjoy this nut on a daily basis, just as much as we enjoy our coffee.
Active ingredients: the alkaloid: arecoline.
Effects: The active substance, arecoline, stimulates the nervous system: improves learning and thinking abilities. It increases
respiration and decreases the workload of the heart. It is both an upper and a mild sexual stimulant. Adding a few drops of lemon
juice to the powdered nut and keeping it in the mouth to mix it with saliva best release it. It is also chewed in combination with
kava-kava.
Use/dosage: add one teaspoon to a cup of coffee or hot chocolate or simply eat one teaspoon (with drops of lemon juice), leave
it in the mouth for a while and wash it away with a drink.
Side effects: very high doses may cause dizziness and diarrhoea; frequent use may lead to reddening of teeth and gums.
Colanoot (=Kola nut or Cola nut) (cola nitida)
Family: Sterculiaceae (cacao family)
This is the seed of the cola acuminata tree that is native to Central Africa, but nowadays, it also grows in Jamaica, Brazil and
It was once one of the two active ingredients of Coca-Cola (the other ingredient was the infamous coca); and according to
American author W. Poundstone, cola nut still is one of the ingredients (the recipe of Coca-Cola is secret). It is certain that it can
still be found in Pepsi-Cola. In Brazil it is traditionally used to make a beverage with and to heal minor cuts, and Jamaicans use it
as an aphrodisiac.
Active ingredients: caffeine, kolanin and theobromine
Effects: Cola nut is an upper, a stimulant and a mild aphrodisiac and it stimulates the digestive tract and the combustion of body
fats.
Use/dosage: add one teaspoon to a cup of coffee, tea or hot chocolate milk.
Side effects: may lead to restlessness or insomnia (comparable to the side effects of caffeine).
Guarana (paullina cupana)
These are the crushed, nutty seeds of the guarana plant, a woody climbing plant that grows in the tropical forests of the Amazon
Basin. It has yellow flowers that turn into fruits each carrying three nutty brown seeds. Indian tribes of the amazon basin have
been using guarana for many centuries. The Quarami tribe, for instance, used it to fight bowel complaints, and the Maues always
have and still do benefit from its potent therapeutic properties. Many South
American natives harden guarana powder and turn it into an eatable rod. They carry these rods with them when they travel
(sometimes for days) through the forests and nibble on them, whenever they need a substitute for food.
Active ingredients: guaranin, theobromin, theofyllin
The main ingredient, guaranin, is almost identical to caffeine. One guarana seed has a guaranin content of about 4-5% ( +/-three
times as high as the content of a normal coffee bean).
Effects: Guarana is a high-energy source that is used to increase alertness, fights fatigue, control appetite, ease muscle cramps
and calm nervous tension, and it is an excellent mood elevator. Guarana is also used as an aphrodisiac and as a tonic against
hangovers and menstrual pains. The stimulating effect of a guarana beverage lasts twice as long and is much more relaxing than
that of a caffeine drink. Unlike the instant and addictive kick or a sudden feeling of anxiety that caffeine may result into, the body
absorbs guarana much more gradually. Unlike caffeine, it does not cause stomach and bowel complaints (e.g. cramps).
Use/dosage: Add two teaspoons to a large glass of cold-water milk or juice.
Side effects: Excessive use may lead to habituation, nervous tension or insomnia.
Kava-Kava (piper methysticum)
Family: piperaceae (pepper family)
This is a tall shrub, native to the South Pacific islands, (the Hawaiian islands and New Guinea). The root pulp and lower stems are
used to make hot tea or to put in a cold coconut or fruit drink.
In the South Pacific kava-kava is also called the plant of knowledge. In the Fiji islands the medical healers, called ‘dauvagunu’
(meaning: ‘expert at drinking kava-kava’) gained access to the ‘Vu’, a spirit force, through the consumption of kava-kava. In this
manner they obtained their healing power.
Active ingredients: 6 Kawalactones: kawain, dihidrokawain, methysticin, dihydromethysticin, yangonin, dihydroyangonin (these
act synergistically)
Effects: In the south Pacific kava-kava is well known for its calming and tension relieving properties, it can provide deep physical
relaxation yet a clear mental state. It is also used as a stimulant and mild aphrodisiac. It stimulates the sexual organs and the
urinary tract. In addition, people have been using it as a remedy for stomach cramps, headaches, bladder pain, and at one point
in history, it was even used to fight the most painful symptom of gonorrhoea: the discharge.
Use/dosage: add 1 or 2 teaspoons to: 1) hot water or warm alcohol for immediate consumption, or; 2) cold coconut milk and
leave in the refrigerator for 24 hours - In the South pacific people would leave it in a mountain stream overnight, but a mountain
stream just might not be located within a reasonable walking distance - . The people of the South Pacific chew on the Kava-Kava
leaves before putting them into coconut milk. It has been proven that human saliva contains enzymes that activate the
kavalactones. To obtain the same effect without having to chew first you may do the following: add 30 grams (1 ounce) of Kava-
kava to 3 deciliter of water or coconut milk, 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil, and one tablespoon of lecithin* (available in most
Health Food Stores), and mix in blender until the mixture gets a milky appearance. It is also possible to activate de lactones by
leaving it to soak in hard liquor. Kava-kava is also chewed in combination with betelnut.
Side effects: Frequent, long-term use may affect the kidneys, appetite, and cause temporary skin reactions (yellowing), this will
disappear when use is discontinued. When used moderately (once a week) these side effects will not occur. Moreover, these side
effects will disappear immediately after use is discontinued.
Muira Puama (lyriosma ovata)
Family: Oleaceae
The inner bark and the root of this tall South American tree is used to make tea. It is probably one of the most thoroughly tested
herbs, since it has been included in the Brazilian pharmacopoeia* (*= the official list of medicinal drugs, their uses and
properties), as a possible remedy for impotence. The literal translation would de ‘potency wood’.
Active ingredient: muirapuamine (an alkaloid that is somewhat comparable to yohimbine)
Effects: It works as a stimulant and a mild aphrodisiac (especially for males). Moreover it increases the sensitivity of skin and
sexual organs and, when used regularly, it increases virility.
Dosage/use: Put 1-2 heaping tablespoons of muira-puama in 1/2liter of water and allow it to boil for 15 minutes. The effects
should be felt after 1/2hour. A more potent lotion can be obtained by soaking 30 grams of Muira Puama in 1/2 liter of vodka for
two weeks; every day it should be shaken well. A few sips should suffice. Finally, it may be interesting to know that in Brazil it is
also rubbed on the genitals males to stimulate an erection.
Side effects: No side effects known.
Sabal Fruits (=Saw Palmetto or Zaagpalmbessen) (sevenoa serrulata)
These are dark purple berries that grow on a small palm tree, the saw palmetto (serenoa repens) that is native to Central
America. The saw palmetto has sword like leaves that grow in a fan shape. Its fruits are dried and made into a tea.
Active ingredients: polysaccharides
Effects: It works as a mild aphrodisiac; moreover it improves the sexual potency. It increases the sensitivity of the skin and the
sexual organs and it also stimulates the urinary tract. Finally it works as a toning agent of the male reproductive system. This
toning effect has been confirmed by several studies. In addition it seems to be a remedy for enlarged prostate glands and it is
used to increase female fertility and stamina. Finally, it is used as a hormone stimulant and claimed to enlarge testicles and
women’s breasts. The tea made out of these berries, was very popular among the native American Indians.
Use/Dosage: Add 5 dried berries to 1 cup of water; max. 2 cups a day. Soaking the berries in distilled alcohol for a week will
intensify the effects. If you wish to use it as a toning agent or to increase virility, you should use it for a longer period of time (you
may decrease the dosage).
Side effects: high doses may lead to fatigue and increase the pressure on the bladder.
MAGIC HERBS MIXED by Sirius > Products®
A nice smooth and relaxing smokers mix based on damiana (see Damiana under MAGIC HERBS) leaves. A good alternative to
nicotine.
Brainstorm TEA BLEND
A number of Asian herbs and roots of plants, mixed together according to an ancient Buddhist recipe. This blend contains green
sencha tea, ginko biloba, jasmine, fo ti tien, taiga root, galangal root and ginger root.
Effects: Stimulates meditation and the functioning of the brain. Is a tonic for body and soul.
Side effects: None.
Use/Dosage: Put 1 or 2 teaspoons in the teapot and poor about 1/2 litre of boiling water onto it and leave it to soak for a while.
Aphrodisia TEA BLEND
The main ingredient of this sensuous, erotic tea mix is damiana (see Damiana), a plant native to the tropical parts of America. The
leaves of this plant are combined with passionflower, orange peals and orange blossom.
Effects: An aphrodisiac that produces a relaxed, harmonized feeling and a mild high. Long term usage increases potency,
regulates the hormone system in women and stimulates the urinary tract.
Side effects: Excessive and long-term usage may harm the liver.
Use/dosage: Poor 1/3 litre of boiling water on 1 teaspoon of the blend, leave to soak for a while and sweeten with honey,
according to your taste. If you are using extremely hard water, you should not allow it to boil (+90C).
The active substance of Salvia Divinorum is Salvorin A. In the USA this substance is often used in its concentrated form, which
may produce a trip many consider extremely overwhelming. The concentrated extract of Salvia Divinorum is also available by
Sirius> under the name “Holy Smoke”. Tests have shown that 1 gram of dried leaves contains between 1.5 and 2.2 mg. of
Salvorin A. Because of these substantial differences in content, we strongly advise you to always be careful before taking higher
doses.
The effects of Salvia Divinorum are more or less comparable to those of magic mushrooms: euphoria, hallucinations, warm andtingling sensations and an altered state of consciousness.
Salvia Divinorum can be consumed as follows: *Chewing it (as chewing tobacco)
Use a dosage of +/- 3.5 grams. Put only a small part of this dosage in your mouth at first and chew on it for about 7 minutes. Keep
repeating this, until you have chewed up the entire dosage. After 15 minutes you should be able to feel the first effects. The
experience will last for about an hour.
*Smoking it from a bong
Use a dosage of 1 to 2 grams. If it is your first time, limit your dosage to 1 gram to test your response! It is necessary that you get
the entire dosage into your system within a very short time span (in 2 to 3 inhalations), otherwise, you will only experience a mild
rush. This means that you need a pipe with a large head (one that fits the entire dosage) and a large compartment for the cooling-
water. Due to the high boiling point of Salvorin A. you need a pencil torch or a “jet-flame” lighter, rather than a regular lighter. It is
recommendable to use a self-extinguishing lighter, or to have someone else to put out the torch for you, for the Salvorin rush will
take effect almost immediately!! On average, the effects will persist for 10 to 15 minutes.
*Smoking it from a plastic bottle
The dosage is 1 to 2 grams. If it is your first time, limit your dosage to 1 gram to test your response! Roll a pure salvia cigarette of
the entire amount you wish to inhale. Fill a bucket up with water. Get a plastic bottle with a cap. Cut the bottom from the bottle and
make a whole in the cap that fits the salvia cigarette. First you hold the bottle vertically and push the bottle into the water as deep
as possible, with the open bottom side downwards. Now you place the cigarette in the hole in the cap of the bottle (burning side
up) and slowly pull the bottle out of the water (not all the way!). The vacuum that is created inside the bottle causes the smoke to
be sucked into the bottle. Now you take out the salvia cigarette, turn off the bottle cap and place your mouth around the
bottleneck. Slowly push the bottle back into the water while you inhale the smoke out of the bottle. The Salvorin rush will take
effect almost immediately and will persist for 10 to 15 minutes.
The best effects may be obtained by combining chewing with smoking. You should start with chewing, and when the effectscommence, you smoke some from a bong. When using this method, the onset of the effects produced by smoking will be moregradual and will persist much longer.
When you are a more experienced consumer of Salvia Divinorum, you may want to try to combine it with a mushroom trip. It isbest to administer Salvia when the mushroom trip is at its peak.
Holy Smoke®
Take a break into another dimension.
Holy Smoke is an extract (5 or 10 times) of Salvia Divinorum, a plant containing the alkaloïd Salvanorin A. Salvanorin A is a very
strong entheogen comparable to the effects of DMT.
A 10X extract means Holy Smoke contains 10 times as much of the active ingredient -salvanorin A- as does the plain leaf.
Standarized means it is made using pure salvanorin A and is not a crude extract. This vial contains 12,5 mg of pure salvanorin A
redeposit into 0,5 gram of dried salvia leaf.
This vial (10X) contains about 30 moderate doses or 10 full doses. For your first experience, try a moderate dose which is one
medium sized lungful. If this proves to be not enough, then next time you use the product you can try a full dose, which is one
lungful. Use a regular pipe, a bong or water pipe can deliver too large a dose and therefore this is not recommended, especially
during your initial explorations.
First find a comfortable position, preferably sitting down in a quiet environment. Have a sitter present for your first few
experiences. Under the influence of salvia people can sometimes get up and walk around and be quite unaware of their
surroundings. Take one medium sized lungful and keep the smoke in for as long as is comfortably possible. Effects develop
almost immediately and last about fifteen minutes, and then wear off very cleanly with no hangover or residual body load. This
extract cannot be used orally.
Effect:
A number of themes are frequently experienced with salvanorin-A:
- Becoming objects.
- Visions of various two-dimensional surfaces, films and membranes.
- Revisiting places from the past, especially childhood.
- Loss of body and/or identity.
- Various sensations of motion, or being pulled or twisted by forces of some kind.
- Uncontrollable hysterical laughter.
- Overlapping realities, the perception that one is in several locations at once.
Do not use when pregnant, nursing, depressed or on medication. Do not operate a motorized vehicle or machine when under the
influence of salvia. Use prohibited to those less than 18 years old. Do not use this product in conjunction with other psychoactive
substances; it can be greatly potentate by other compounds. Take your explorations with Salvia Divinorum slowly; get to know the
territory one step at a time. Use it with the respect and reverence it deserves and it will reward you with deep insight.
Fumancer
The Smoking Fun Enhancer!
Fumancer by Sirius> products® is the first legal smoking mix that really works! This extract from passionflower* and scullcap*
gives an effect that is comparable to the effect of opium or cannabis. Because of the high quality of the extracts, the effect of
Fumancer is much stronger than that of the smoking mixes known thus far. You can smoke Fumancer pure, or mixed with hashish
or cannabis. Mixed with hashish or cannabis, Fumancer gives a very special effect!
Dosage/use: Mix one quarter of a teaspoon with tobacco and role a joint from this. Don’t use more than a quarter of a teaspoon,
because the blend might not burn well enough. You can also smoke Fumancer in an opium pipe or vaporizer. Another good
method to smoke it is hot knifing.
Important: Remember not to touch the powder with your fingers, because it could get sticky. And always close the bag very
carefully, because the powder attracts moist very easily.
HALLUCINOGENIC SEEDS
Hawaiian Baby Woodrose seeds (Argyreia Nervosa)
Family: Convolvulaceae (Bindweed Family or Morning Glory Family)
These are the seeds of a plant that is not so much a rose as it is a woody climbing vine with silvery foliage and violet flowers. This
plant originated in India, but is now spread over many tropical regions. Otto Degener, who made a description of the Hawaiian
flora, first described it in 1930 - which explains the name of this plant -.
Active ingredients: d-lysergic acid (LSA or LA-111), d-isolysergic acid, lysergol, chanoclavine, chymoclavine and ergonovine,
elymoclavine. Note: LSA is present in the form of a salt; so it is water soluble (not alcohol or ether soluble).
Effects: Hawaiian Baby Woodrose is mind altering. It produces a dreamlike condition in which colours, sounds and feelings are
intensified. It alters ones perception of the outside and the inner world. This is accompanied by a physical lassitude that will
eventually lead to sleep. The initial effects start anywhere between 15 and 45 minutes; you will gradually climb to a ‘peak‘ that will
decrease just as gradually. The whole experience takes somewhere around 5 or 6 hours.
Use/Dosage; Both Hawaiian Baby Woodrose (argyreia nervosa) and Morning glory (ipomoea violacea) seeds contain LSA as
active ingredient. As a result, they produce very similar effects. Only, the concentration of LSA is much higher in Hawaiian baby
woodrose (argyreia nervosa), meaning that a dose of only 4-5 seeds is sufficient. Grind the seeds until you obtain a very fine
powder (use a coffee grinder or a pepper grinder). Be careful not to take the fine powder in your hands for the
active ingredient can be absorbed through your pores! Leave the powder to soak in a small bowl of water for about 12 hours.
Then you can either drink the whole mixture or strain out the powder (you can use a coffee filter) and drink just the water. Drinking
the water only, without the powder is highly recommendable for people with a sensitive stomach, for the powder may cause
nausea. Another suggestion to avoid nausea is to mix cayenne pepper with the powdered woodrose (pepper opens up the gut,
so that the powder leaves the stomach much quicker). You can also take an air or carsickness pill beforehand. A third method is
to wash it down with one or two glasses of strong alcohol; it speeds up the absorption (do not
Continue drinking for then the alcohol intoxication will diminish the effects of the seeds). Finally, if you prefer to reduce the
physical lassitude the seeds produce, you can take some natural ephedrine along with these seeds, for instance: one or two Fast
Forwards® or one Exiter®.
Side effects: Some people may experience nausea, vomiting and or abdominal cramping. It may also cause drowsiness. Not
suited for pregnant women because it contains substances (ergonines) that are uterus stimulating. Not suited for persons with a
history of liver disorders (e.g. hepatitis).
Morning Glory seeds (Ipomoea Violacea)
These are the seeds of a large climbing vine that has heart shaped leaves that are 4 to 10 cm in length and 3 to 7.5 cm in width,
and white, purplish and pinkish, funnel shaped flowers. It is native to North, Central and South America, the West Indies and the
Far East. Aztec priests were already using it; they would mix it into a rub that was given to those who were to be sacrificed in
order to eliminate all their fears. Today it is still used by the healers or ‘curanderos’ of the Maztec Indians; they make a brew with
it that they drink to obtain information about the possible cure of a patient, and to predict future events.
Effects: Morning Glory is mind altering. It produces a dreamlike condition in which colors, sounds and feelings are intensified. It
alters ones perception of the outside and the inner world. This is accompanied by a physical lassitude that will eventually lead to
sleep. The initial effects start anywhere between 15 and 45 minutes; you will gradually climb to a ‘peak‘ that will decrease just as a
gradually. The whole experience takes somewhere around 6 hours.
Use/Dosage: Both Morning glory (Ipomoea violacea) seeds and Hawaiian Baby Woodrose (argyreia nervosa) seeds contain the
same active ingredient LSA. As a result they produce very similar effects, only the concentration of active substances is much
lower in Morning glory (Ipomoea violacea) meaning that you need a dose of about 100 seeds of morning glory. Grind the seeds
until you obtain a very fine powder (use a coffee grinder or a pepper grinder). Be careful not to take the fine powder in your hands
for the active ingredient can be absorbed through your pores! Leave the powder to soak in a small bowl of water for about 12
hours. Then you can either drink the whole mixture or strain out the powder (you can use a coffee filter) and drink just the water.
Drinking the water only, without the powder is highly recommendable for people with a sensitive stomach, for the powder may
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the gut, so that the
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Turbina (formerly: Rivea Corimbosa), it is also known coaxihuitl and its seeds as olliuqui; the flowers of this variation are hanging
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also a common denominator for all the variations of the ‘morning glory species’ or the ‘bindweed family’; this includes ‘Hawaiian
baby woodrose’.
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Sneakers the Wonder Dog
If I told you then I'd have to find a new place to hide
fun hater
Originally Posted by Sneakers the Wonder Dog
This is all time favorite!
Respectfully, these stupids aren't exclusive to only one party.
Originally Posted by bowieluva
Listen, if no one cares when a crazy noodle walks in and executes children with a gun, no one cares about anything.
Congressman Who Gets Millions In Farm Subsidies Denounces Food Stamps As Stealing ‘Other People’s Money’
Rep. Stephen Fincher (R-TN) agitated against food aid for poor Americans included in the Farm Bill during last week’s House Agricultural Committee debate, accusing the government of stealing “other people’s money.” Funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) has already been decimated in both the House and Senate versions of the Farm Bill, cutting off nearly 2 million working families, children, and seniors from food assistance.
Fincher invoked the Bible in his defense of the devastating cuts, quoting, “The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat.”
At a Holiday Inn in Memphis over the weekend, Fincher expanded on his version of the Christian social gospel: “The role of citizens, of Christians, of humanity is to take care of each other, but not for Washington to steal from those in the country and give to others in the country.”
While Fincher interprets food assistance for the needy as “stealing,” he has not similarly condemned the Farm Bill’s massive agricultural subsidies. In fact, he supported a proposal to expand crop insurance by $9 billion over the next 10 years. Fincher has a great personal stake in maintaining these particular government handouts, as the second most heavily subsidized farmer in Congress and one of the largest subsidy recipients in Tennessee history:
USDA data collected in EWG’s 2013 farm subsidy database update — going live tomorrow –shows that Fincher collected a staggering $3.48 million in “our” money from 1999 to 2012. In 2012 alone, the congressman was cut a government check for a $70,000 direct payment. Direct payments are issued automatically, regardless of need, and go predominantly to the largest, most profitable farm operations in the country.
Fincher’s $70,000 farm subsidy haul in 2012 dwarfs the average 2012 SNAP benefit in Tennessee of $1,586.40, and it is nearly double of Tennessee’s median household income. After voting to cut SNAP by more than $20 billion, Fincher joined his colleagues to support a proposal to expand crop insurance subsidies by $9 billion over the next 10 years.
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/201...peoples-money/
Originally Posted by Shins
True enough but the GOP went wrong when they confused conservative with crazy
Scott Walker Endorses Mandating Transvaginal Ultrasounds And Shutting Down Abortion Clinics
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) has thrown his support behind an anti-abortion measure that’s currently moving through the state legislature, saying he will sign the bill into law if it makes it to his desk. SB 206 would require women to undergo an ultrasound before getting an abortion — which would mandate an invasive transvaginal probe for some of the women who seek early abortions in their first trimester — and force one of the state’s last abortion clinics to close its doors.
“I don’t have any problem with ultrasound,” Walker told reporters on Tuesday in Milwaukee. “I think most people think ultrasounds are just fine.”
Forced ultrasound bills mandate a medically unnecessary procedure that would otherwise be left up to the discretion of a woman and her doctor. Medical experts, including the largest national group representing thousands of OB-GYNs across the country, are opposed to this type of legislation because they say it interferes with their work and compromises their relationships with patients. “All of a sudden, the Senate is full of doctors,” Wisconsin Sen. Tim Cullen (D) said in reference to SB 206′s advancement.
And, even though the lawmakers who push for mandatory ultrasound measures sometimes deny it, these laws also require many women to undergo an invasive transvaginal probe. Before 12 weeks of pregnancy, a transvaginal ultrasound is the only way to detect a clear image — and, since the vast majority of women in the United States seek abortion services in their first trimester, those women must submit to an invasive probe in order to comply with these burdensome laws. Over the past year, reproductive rights advocates have repeatedly decried transvaginal ultrasound laws as “state sponsored rape.”
SB 206 doesn’t stop there. The proposed legislation also includes a provision that would impose additional restrictions on abortion clinics, which would ultimately force a Planned Parenthood clinic to shut down. Since there are only four health clinics in the entire state of Wisconsin that currently provide abortion care, SB 206 could end up severely limiting women’s reproductive access.
The anti-abortion measure was first introduced at the beginning of this month, and it has swiftly advanced in just over a week. Women’s health advocates are accusing the Wisconsin GOP of intentionally fast-tracking SB 206 so that its opponents won’t have enough time to mobilize against it. “This speed of passage sends a clear signal that these legislators want to deny any efforts to ensure due process and are refusing to allow sufficient time for medical providers, advocates, women and their partners to truly weigh in on the anticipated damaging effects of this legislation,” Sara Finger, the executive director of the Wisconsin Alliance for Women’s Health, said in a statement. Finger had less than 24 hours to analyze the legislation before testifying against it.
Walker is expected to follow through on his word to sign SB 206. Throughout his time in office, the GOP governor has approved several attacks on women’s health. Last year, Walker signed three different bills into law to limit abortion access and expand abstinence-only education. And his recent budget stripped family planning funding away from Planned Parenthood, forcing the women’s health organization to close force of its clinics in rural Wisconsin.
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013...cs-ultrasound/
The GOP - Government small enough to fit in your uterus
emmieslost
senior cunt
FUCK the GOP and scott walker.
speaking of assholes trying to squeeze into our lady gardens, this is what is going down in my state.
Branstad to Approve Medicaid Abortion Cases Individually, Says He?ll Be ?Thoughtful?
Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad announced Friday that he expects to sign the state?s budget into law, including a new rule that will allow him to decide on a case-by-case basis whether Medicaid funds will be used to reimburse for abortion services when pregnancies are the result of rape or incest, when there are fetal abnormalities, or to protect the life of the woman.
The rule will give the anti-choice Republican governor complete control over federal Medicaid funding for the roughly two dozen Medicaid-eligible abortions that are performed in the state each year. It could also make many providers unwilling to offer abortions in cases that should be covered, because they won?t know if Medicaid reimbursement will occur.
As RH Reality Check reported in May, restricting access to safe abortion care for Medicaid patients has been a multi-year debate in the Iowa legislature, with anti-choice legislators repeatedly proposing bills or amendments, and even a direct query to the governor, in an attempt to deny reimbursement for almost all abortions that are eligible for Medicaid funding. This new tactic of allowing the governor to approve each case allegedly came about as a compromise between warring factions anxious to get final budget approval. However, it offers the potential for abortion opponents to get the all-out ban they wanted?Gov. Branstad?s could refuse to allow Medicaid reimbursements, or the lack of clarity regarding what he will and will not approve could make doctors afraid to offer services to begin with.
Branstad appears to have no desire to address that lack of clarity. When asked during an appearance on Iowa Public Television how he would approach the new protocol, he touted his opposition to abortion in all instances, though he admitted he would need to consider whether the funding rules apply. ?As I understand it, the decision is not whether there?s an abortion or not, the decision is whether the state is going to approve funding, which is a decision that is made after the fact,? said Branstad, according to the Sioux City Journal. ?So I?m not really going to have any say in whether this procedure occurs or not?I would discourage it wherever possible?but then I?ll have to make a decision whether or not it?s appropriate under the circumstances and under the guidelines that we have.?
It remains unclear what those ?guidelines? are. Under the federal Hyde Amendment, all abortions performed in cases of rape, incest, or health of the pregnant person should be covered?though how those rules play out in practice leaves much to be desired. Iowa has traditionally also included cases of fetal anomaly, and for this year at least, those have been the majority of the abortions in question. As the Journal reports, there have been nine Medicaid abortion payment requests this year, of which eight were for medical issues with the fetus. Under Iowa?s traditional rules, all such procedures should be reimbursed, and under Hyde only one of them should be. Without specifically saying which ?guidelines? he would consider, Branstad leaves most of this fiscal year?s cases in legal limbo.
Even more problematic than those ambiguities, and putting so much power over people?s reproductive decisions into one person?s hands, is the reinforcement of the idea that there are ?worthy? and ?unworthy? abortions?putting a value judgement on when it is appropriate to allow a person access to have an abortion. If and when Branstad does make his guidelines clear (which he would likely do out of fear that a denial in payment for a sexual assault case could put the state?s full Medicaid funding in jeopardy, not because of concern for reproductive rights), those value statements would get passed on to the public.
?This law seems to harken back to those days [when] outsiders get to determine if a woman?s reason for an abortion fits their prescribed list of ?good enough? reasons,? reproductive justice activist Steph Herold told RH Reality Check. Herold, who has focused much of her work recently on helping to reduce stigma surrounding abortion, noted that the governor?s new role isn?t unlike that of the original ?hospital approved? abortion panels women often had to endure prior to legal abortion, where the pregnant patient would be required to prove herself worthy of needing the procedure.
?Medicaid should cover abortion. Period,? said Herold. ?No one should have to be subject to a politician?s review to determine if their abortion warrants coverage. Iowa falls under the Hyde Amendment, meaning that Medicaid can only cover abortion in the case of rape, incest, or life threat. This is already unjust. Now the governor wants to make Hyde even more cruel by asking survivors of rape, incest, and medical emergencies to let him decide if their circumstances merit insurance coverage? What a callous law. It perpetuates the idea that some abortions are more deserving of insurance coverage than others, when really, all types of insurance?Medicaid and private health insurance?should cover abortion no matter the circumstance. No one should have to forgo rent to be able to access the health care they need.?
http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/20...be-thoughtful/
The GOP - Government Small Enough To Fit In Your Uterus: Freedom, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness For All Sperm!
bowieluva
This is the shit that makes me hate some portion of the male species.
To be fair there are lot's of GOP Ladies who believe the same thing.
More GOP Idiocy: 'The Incidence of Rape Resulting in Pregnancy Are Very Low'
And it's not even Todd Akin who said it.
After the 2012 elections, Republicans vowed not to be tripped up by any more Todd Akin-style comments alienating women voters by minimizing rape, defying science, and sheer force of idiocy. Apparently Rep. Trent Franks did not get that message, though. Franks is pushing a bill that would make abortion illegal after 20 weeks, and in opposing a Democratic amendment creating exceptions for rape and incest, he had this to say:
"The incidence of rape resulting in pregnancy are very low."
Actually, as we all found out after Akin's claim that "If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down," pregnancy from rape is not rare at all. But Republicans like Todd Akin and Trent Franks don't really give a damn how rare or common it is for women to face an unwanted pregnancy after being raped. That's what absolutism is—there is absolutely no circumstance under which they are willing to allow a woman to decide to end a pregnancy. Rape and incest just don't register for them.
Franks went on to echo the logic of Ron Paul's "honest rape" comments: There shouldn't need to be a post-20 weeks rape and incest exception because "when you make that exception, there’s usually a requirement to report the rape within 48 hours." So not only does he reject the facts on pregnancy and rape, he doesn't begin to get all the reasons women don't always immediately report rape.
And while the party's post-2012 rebranding efforts have tried to keep top Republicans from publicly saying this kind of stuff, no exceptions for rape or incest remains the official Republican position on abortion.
http://www.alternet.org/more-gop-rap...ce=twitterfeed
Hulk smash.
They bring out the riot grrrl in me.
Get 'em!
Texas Congressman: Masturbating Fetuses Prove Need for Abortion Ban
As the House of Representatives gears up for Tuesday’s debate on HR 1797, a bill that would outlaw virtually all abortions 20 weeks post fertilization, Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX) argued in favor of banning abortions even earlier in pregnancy because, he said, male fetuses that age were already, shall we say, spanking the monkey.
“Watch a sonogram of a 15-week baby, and they have movements that are purposeful,” said Burgess, a former OB/GYN. “They stroke their face. If they’re a male baby, they may have their hand between their legs. If they feel pleasure, why is it so hard to believe that they could feel pain?”
That observation led Burgess to say he had argued for the abortion ban to start at a much earlier stage of gestation, 15 or 16 weeks. (This is less than halfway through a pregnancy.) He appeared to liken Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion, to the 1893 Plessy v. Ferguson decision that formally legalized racial segregation, and was not fully reversed until Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The rationale for the Republican bill, which advanced through the House Judiciary last week on a near-total party-line vote, is one scientifically disputed study, touted by Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) in his opening remarks at today’s Rules Committee hearing, that asserts fetuses can feel pain as early as 20 weeks after sperm meets egg.
“Well, I think all the members are cognizant of the fact that this is not a Congress that cares much about science,” said Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY), the Rules Committee’s ranking member, in her questioning of Goodlatte, who refuted that claim by saying that since 1973, the year when the Supreme Court legalized abortion, much more had been learned about fetal development.
Major medical bodies in the United States and the United Kingdom have refuted the claim of fetal pain before the third trimester.
http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/20...-abortion-ban/
The Republican Ideal:
No health care covered birth control, and no abortions... but give dudes health care covered Viagra and Cialis.
Boners for everyone!!! ...but pray you don't get knocked up.
Texas Legislator Claims Rape Kits Are A Form Of Abortion
n the midst of all the chaos on Sunday night as the Texas legislature pushed through a series of stringent restrictions on abortion and women’s health, it was easy to miss what might have been the most inaccurate and dangerous claim of the evening: One state representative tried to argue on the State House floor that rape kits are a form of abortion.
Texas Rep. Jody Laubenberg (R) sponsored several anti-abortion measures currently making their way to the Governor’s desk. Taken together, they would shut down the vast majority of the state’s women’s health clinics and criminalize abortions after 20 weeks. But in reasoning out why she did not support an exemption for rape victims in the 20-week ban, Laubenberg betrayed a woeful lack of information on the procedures a victim of rape undergoes — namely, the “rape kit,” which is used to collect data on the assailant and in no way relates to pregnancy:
When Rep. Senfronia Thompson, D-Houston, called for an exemption for women who were victims of rape and incest, Rep. Jody Laubenberg, R-Parker, explained why she felt it was unnecessary.
“In the emergency room they have what’s called rape kits where a woman can get cleaned out,” she said, comparing the procedure to an abortion. “The woman had five months to make that decision, at this point we are looking at a baby that is very far along in its development.”
The remark about rape kits, which is not accurate, sparked widespread ridicule on social media sites. Laubenberg, who has difficulty debating bills, then simply rejected all proposed changes to her bill without speaking until the end of the debate.
Rape kits are used to collect DNA evidence from the bodies of rape victims; after a victim enters a hospital, staff collect bodily fluid, residue under the victim’s nails, and any blood or hair samples that could be relevant for an investigation. Rape kits are in no way equivalent to an abortion.
Though it doesn’t sound likely from her comments, Laubenberg may have meant that some hospitals administer Plan B to rape victims. Plan B stops fertilization of an egg, and is also not equivalent to an abortion — though it does at least relate to reproduction, unlike rape kits.
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013...m-of-abortion/
People who think rape kits are mystical sperm zapping douches are sponsoring bills to restrict women's reproductive choices
Harlette
i was watching the live stream last night, i am soooo shocked! this closes all clinics, yu can only go to certain hospitals, most will have to travel 600 miles to find one, and that also means women who were getting prenatal from these clinics can't any more, that now certain drugs won't be able to be given even for women who are trying to save the pregnancies in er's ! tere is no exceptions to any procedure after 20 weeks even in rape, incest, if the mother would die in child birth, or if the baby will have no life - like being born w/ out a brain - and it goes on and on, i am just shocked!
Originally Posted by Harlette
This is today's GOP. We can't just sit back and be shocked! We have to vote and we have to fight back!
this is the most depressing page in the history of MDS.
Originally Posted by songbirdsong
"Say, you know who could handle this penis? MY MOTHER."
Originally Posted by animosity
Don't get depressed by it - get mad! Get mad and vote. Get your friends to vote!
i don't have to worry about anyone overturning abortion in california. they give those out free with every purchase here.
It could happen if the nutters get a toe hold in your state Congress or you elect a GOP governor with nutter tendencies. Wisconsin is a prime example.
This was a bit of an overreaction...
WASHINGTON -
A Republican Congressman from New York is under fire after verbally assaulting a reporter following the President's State of the Union Address.
Michael Scotto, a reporter with NY1, asked Rep. Michael Grimm about a campaign finance investigation surrounding his 2010 campaign when Grimm threatened to throw Scotto over a balcony and "break him in half".
http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/n...o/-/index.html
assholes, business as usual, political, shithole politicians, trump's delusions
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“A healthy society shouldn’t have only one voice.” in praise of China's citizen journalists.
A trip into Orwell's memory hole.
"Unlike their parents’ and grandparents’ generations, today’s young Chinese have no living memories of the atrocities that the Chinese Communist Party has committed since 1949. Massive famine and poverty, minuscule food rations, and millions of people who perished are now a part of history that has gone up in flames, never to be spoken of again. The Chinese authorities have made sure that Communist China’s history, from 1949 to 1989 (including the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre), is scraped clean or reduced to just a few historically inaccurate paragraphs. Today’s young Chinese grew up with little to no awareness of what has happened, not knowing that the glorious Communist China sits on the corpses of millions of innocent people.
With neither living memories nor historical knowledge, young Chinese today do not see the CCP as an evildoer. They grew up in a China that has been a rising world power with signs of prosperity and modernity everywhere. The social contract the Chinese government has offered to them — limited freedom in exchange for stability and prosperity — appears to have worked out well for almost every citizen. So what if they can’t access a few Western social-media sites such as Facebook and Twitter? Western-style democracy wouldn’t work in China anyway, the CCP has told them.
But the spread of the coronavirus has exposed the Achilles’ heel of this social contract. When everyone has the potential to be infected, when they hear stories of people who had to walk an hour to seek treatment only to be turned away, when they read the countless pleas for help and heartbreaking stories online, and when they see videos of overcrowded hospitals and overworked medical staff, they see the façade of stability and prosperity crumbling right before their eyes. They are hungry for information. They want to know how to protect themselves and their families. In the past, the search for information and truth would always eventually run up against a wall, and they would just give up. However, the death of Dr. Li Wenliang, one of the handful of early whistleblowers on the coronavirus outbreak, awakened many Chinese, especially the young. They finally realized that the stability and prosperity they were promised and for which they gave up their freedom was nothing but a beautifully wrapped lie.
This is a generation that grew up with the abundance of social media, a generation that is constantly influenced by Western cultures through fashion, music, movies, and YouTube videos. They value freedom of expression. Like young people in the West, they want to instantly share with the world what they see and how they feel. They grew up with electronic gadgets; they have the technological know-how to bypass the Chinese government’s Internet firewall. Since the coronavirus outbreak, some of these young people have taken to heart Dr. Li’s final words: “A healthy society shouldn’t have only one voice.” They have decided to do something about it — through seeking and sharing truth on their own.
That’s what Li Zehua set out to do. He quit his job and found a way to get into Wuhan. With the locals’ help, he was able to get a car and find a place to stay. By sheer coincidence, Li’s new temporary lodging was right next to the former lodging of another young citizen journalist, Chen Qiushi, who had previously posted videos about his visits to Wuhan. By the time Li arrived in Wuhan, Chen had “disappeared,” gone since February 7. Government officials told Chen’s family and friends that Chen had been put into forced medical quarantine, but they refused to disclose when and where.
Undeterred, Li started posting videos of his visits to infected locations such as college campuses and funeral homes. He interviewed residents, migrant workers, and employees at the funeral homes. Li said in one of his videos, “If one Chen Qiushi falls, 10 million more Chen Qiushis will stand up to take his place.” Li’s words held true. Through his reporting, we learned that local authorities didn’t carry out promised disinfectant measures in infected communities and that residents were running low on groceries. These are the types of information China’s state-run media would not dare to report, but Li chose to. For exposing the truth, Li was often harassed by the local police and self-identified security guards, but he continued to do what he regarded as legitimate reporting.
On February 26, when Li was on his way back from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which many conspiracy theorists believe was responsible for creating and spreading the coronavirus, he posted a short video while he was being chased at high speed by a public-security vehicle. Viewers can hear him exclaim, “They’re chasing me. . . . I’m sure that they want to hold me in isolation. Please help me!”
Li made it back to his apartment and started livestreaming again. He was visibly shaken by the chase and knew very well that something baleful was getting close to him. Then he heard a knock at the door. Through the peephole, he saw two big guys outside. It was to be his final hour of freedom. Before he opened the door, he made an impassioned speech.
Li said: “Since I first arrived in Wuhan, everything I have done has been in accord with the constitution of the People’s Republic of China and with its laws.” Knowing he would be taken away and even forcibly quarantined, just like Chen Qiushi, Li made sure to note in the video that he had protective gear and that he was healthy at the moment of his arrest. It was important for him to emphasize this on the record, because if the Chinese government later claimed that Li was sick and quarantined or even had died of the coronavirus, the rest of the world, especially Li’s family, would know it was a lie.
Many Chinese youths today “probably have no idea at all what happened in our past,” Li went on to say. “They think the history they have now is the one they deserve.” Li hoped that more young people would join him in standing up for the truth. After these words, Li opened the door. Two men in masks and dressed fully in black walked in. The camera was abruptly shut off, and the livestreaming stopped. No one has heard from Li since that day. Thanks to the China Media Project, Li’s final speech was translated into English.
Li is the third Chinese citizen journalist detained by Chinese authorities since the start of the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan. The other two journalists are Fang Bin and Chen Qiushi. Chinese authorities will continue to ruthlessly suppress these truth-tellers. However, something has changed inside China. The pandemic has become a wake-up call for Chinese people. Many of them are starting to realize that freedom of expression is essential for their own and their families’ well-being, even their survival. Last week, when a senior Communist Party official visited a lockdown community in Wuhan, residents were forbidden to come out. So a handful of them shouted from their apartments, “Everything is fake.” This week, the Chinese censors deleted an interview of a Wuhan doctor who discussed the local government’s early cover-up. According to BuzzFeed, Chinese Internet users have been implementing all kinds of creative ways to share the interview, including “rewriting it backward, filling it with typos and emojis, sharing it as a PDF, and even translating it into fictional languages like Klingon.” Beijing is making a big mistake if it thinks that more repression will silence all Chinese people into submission going forward."
This article appears as “China’s Missing Citizen Journalists” in the April 6, 2020, print edition of National Review.
Huge death tolls in US with huge racial disparities
Biden, like Trump is not even remotely progressive
Lowered insulin price should be made permanent
Message to NGOs that should be obvious.
Comments After Bernie Sanders Withdrawal from Presidential Race Illustrates that Entire US Opposition Does Not Know About GATS-
Open letter asking 37 WTO Members to declare themselves eligible to import medicines manufactured under compulsory license in another country, under 31bis of TRIPS Agreement
The dirty linkage between trading away US jobs and lack of affordable medicines.
The future of work in the US, guest workers, precarious labor and the "agreement" to privatize everything.
Won't somebody tell US states about GATS so they stop pretending they can just vote to fix healthcare.
Urgent-non-partisan Medicare and Social-Security traps for the unwary -proof below
Phytonutrients' importance in COVID-19 epidemiology and resistance.
COVID-19 epidemic was predictably likely so countries cant say it was unexpected.
Joe Biden's nomination of Katherine Tai to be USTR.
It's still way too early to "open the US up" say the numbers.
Trump confesses he doesn't want to do testing in the US because it reveals cases of COVID-19.
As deaths mount, Trump tries to convince Americans it’s safe to inch back to normal
WHO announces COVID-19 Technology Pool to cooperate to beat the virus.
Excerpt from Lou Dobbs re: Stealth "War on the Middle Class" with comments by Lori Wallach.
Evolution will not be televised
Resveratrol, a widely available nutritional supplement, inhibits COVID-19 in cell cultures.
Question to my readers on Article II MFN exemption expiration dates (re Affordable Care Act expiration)
New York Times totally covering up the real cause of Education Privatization.
New York Times appears to be trying to cover up GATS' effect on healthcare
"Biden Cuts Social Security" (The Intercept) Actually, its the GATS agreement we signed more than two decades ago, and the TISA that they probably will revive soon that do it. Medicare is likely to get the same treatment too. See elsewhere on this site.
Graphic illustrates why the oligarchy wants to capture migration for corporations..
Is the massive campaign against disinformation in the MSM, itself disinformative, in fact acting to hide the theft of democracy by secret deals such as the GATS?
Australia recently made changes to their healthcare, likely to become more TISA or GATS compliant. Also, two good sources of info on trade deals and drugs, and drug IP issues, especially involving the ongoing COVID-19 and global AIDS heath crises..
Media coverage of WTO dispute settlement impasse completely leaving out its implications for working if WTO takes over work visas globally.
The mystery of WTO dispute DS503- a stealth attack on skilled workers and their work in the US and globally.
Oh what a tangled web we weave. On healthcare and insurance and the 'Affordable Care Act' and the GATS agreement.
"The US economy is being hollowed out behind all of our backs!" TAA statistics supposed to track outsourcing and job loss to trade deals is allowed a huge loophole - so it misses many, or more likely most jobs being lost!
Capitalism Is Broken. The Fix Begins With a Free Covid-19 Vaccine.
Stilbene-based Natural Compounds as Promising Drug Candidates against COVID-19.
As COVID-19 deaths rise in Mexico, US tries to force Mexican factories to continue to work in defiance of common sense.
The COVID-19 situation illustrates why trade agreements should never have been used to hijack the peoples wishes to lock in bad policy on healthcare and drugs, trapping politicians in big lies.
The dangers of rushing coronavirus vaccines are substantial.
Video on European Investment Court shows how standing before international courts is a major issue. Should people have a right to exist at the supranational level (before these courts)?
One year into the COVID19 epidemic many useful strategies are still being overlooked. Why?
IMPLEMENTATION OF WTO PROVISIONS IN FAVOUR OF DEVELOPING COUNTRY MEMBERS Note by the Secretariat
Additional measures concerning non-immigrant visas - Request for Consultations by India from the US.
GATS Mode 4
Cost of having a baby in the US if you are uninsured could be as high as $287,453 (2009)
British firm may have created a successful lock in of US healthcare policy, read story to understand how scary this kind of corporate lock-in is.
I do not plan to vote for Biden if he wins the nomination. He's not somebody I trust. He's BSing us on "public option" which is not a valid approach to healthcare,
GOP stimulus bill will help the better off more than the poor, and very low income people won't get anything.
The UK's health is threatened by the push to privatize it's National Health Service. Here is what must be done to preserve it.
Italian doctors adamant that if Italy did not have a public healthcare system it would be worse.
Neither Americans nor Britons seem to be able to admit that both our governments are lying to us across a broad spectrum to hide GATS.
"Clinton-care", "Clinton-lite"
The real cause of Bernie Sanders' problems with the DNC (and America's healthcare mess!)
Britain is literally being TRICKED out of their NHS and other social services by UK government and business interests, recent events, public documents prove. (Part One of a series)
How could Biden "expand Obamacare" when "progressive liberalization" is a ONE WAY STREET to privatization.
Never ending scandals, drama, histrionics, as a deliberate scheme to cover-up the depriving of the nation and planet of functional democratic governance.
Be aware coronavirus may be used to attempt "post-hoc" "justification" of a huge plan to outsource/offshore jobs (GATS Mode 4) to lower wages, that been planned, literally for 32 yrs!
MIT test of "Secure" Voting App finds multiple vulnerabilities.
Insurance developments that could lead us into COSTLY FTA-lock-in
Nick Skala had almost gotten the House to vote on single paper.
An entire nation's minds are a horrible thing to waste.
The Hidden Holocaust -
Is the testing of and number of diagnosed coronavirus patients being delayed in order so that more drug companies and products can be sold with long periods of patent exclusivity at higher prices, to literally make a killing?
Bernie Sanders health plan would make coronavirus vaccine (and treatment) free.
Insurance companies clarify co-pays waived for corona virus testing only, not treatment
Germany has 63,000 coronavirus cases but just a fraction of the numbers of deaths as the US.
Britons and (we) Americans need to know something. We have frustrated "expectancies" but increasingly, thanks to GATS, the proposed UK-US FTA, TISA and others, not any kind of real property interest in our nation's futures.
HEATHCARE EMERGENCY, A PERSONAL LOOK AT WHAT IS HAPPENING IN WUHAN CHINA
"Its why US healthcare never gets fixed" A plea to Bernie Sanders and his campaign, to please tell the country about GATS
Coronavirus epidemic news coverage
Biden says he will veto Medicare-for-All bill if it lands on his desk. This is proof that he knows that its banned by 'GATS', an obscure WTO trade agreement we really should repudiate and dump.
Spain has nationalized its healthcare system, as part of its state of emergency.
Large scale privatizations of once-public (services) are the first steps in a global scheme to outsource and/or offshore them internationally at low wages.
Coronavirus mortality in US now higher than many other countries.
Made up interview imagining a (WTO dispute) DS503 loss, answering my own made up imagined questions from readers about it.
Americans should be aware of a very important difference between the US Presidential candidates
Britons, GATS was the missing piece Jeremy Corbyn likely couldn't tell you about two months ago, Similarly with Bernie Sanders, it seems he won't tell us this missing piece either I really would rather not think that he'd rather let Biden win the Dem nomination and then lose to Trump. BTW, without leaving GATS, Biden cannot fix healthcare, his hands will be tied by GATS..
[Ip-health] Unreasonable pricing and The ‘Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act, 6 2020
Famous last words? “our country wasn’t built to be shut down.”
"You no longer had to kill yourself” to avoid being “a burden on your children”
Both the British and we Americans are naive over what is at stake in a battle which the Brits frame as just being about their NHS, and the US frames as being about healthcare reform or Medicare For All..
Problems Britons blame on their EU membership are largely rooted in their WTO membership, not their EU membership. So Brexit won't fix them, in fact it will almost certainly make them all much worse.
Recommendation, the US should strongly consider leaving the (WTO) GATS (Jobs and services) and TRIPS (drugs) and LINKING THE TWO TOGETHER.
Our right to regulate drug prices was signed away when we joined the WTO.
Rank and file Democrats don't know about the GATS, nor does it seem do many Congresspeople. Also, PLEASE submit "claims" made here, to fact checking sites, whether you doubt them or not.
A long discussion on the captured state (of affairs) for working people in the US, UK and a case in the WTO, DS503 that could pull the rug out from underneath developed country workers worldwide.
The most important issue for a healthy healthcare future: a unitary, tierless system. This should not be disputable.
Sanya Reid Smith explains TISA - very good explanation.
Salon article on Republicans and healthcare leaves out the actions of the other neoliberals
A Country in Denial, and not just about COVID-19
Hidden Holocaust: Young Californian, turned away by urgent care facility because he was uninsured dies of cardiac arrest due to coronavirus
Trump is deliberately antagonizing China, the source of most of the ingredients that go into drugs people need-
Trump in the UK, saying NHS is "on the table", 2014 (UK's) Serco "being paid to do nothing" KMOV story. GATS information blockade. What does it all mean?
"This is about their future" 2020 Election needs to be perceived as fair, as having given the losing side a voice, and due process.
Trump is making a bad situation worse.
The reason the Corporate Dems "coalesced" so quickly around Joe Biden is the desire to hide the GATS from voters.
(watching the debate) Why you cant have a Medicare "public option" its simple. The public absolutely cannot be optional.
Why mixed healthcare systems are failing in trying to deliver subsidized healthcare
Who traded who what in the GATS?
Three very young North Korean soldiers die of pneumonia, their age coincides with 1997 "famine"
WTO looks at the ACA as a "Post 2008" temporary financial services re-regulation.
WHO: International Trade and Health
We need to prevent the creation of a hospital to prison pipeline.
Trump's proposal that the US could "make a decision in 15 days" allowing businesses to reopen so soon while the epidemic is still raging would be extremely ill advised
What is "progressive liberalization" ?
What will happen with Brexit and the NHS?
The WTO Procedure we must pursue to get our rights to regulate (for example, to implement Medicare For All) back for a service sector (like health insurance)
President Trump, Vice President Pence, stop the BS - GATS and TRIPS are preventing the government from doing what it needs to do to cure the epidemic, and politicians are hiding it.
Bernie Sanders should not drop out for a very simple reason. Doing so would be abandoning us to the "mercy" of a merciless and evil 32 year old scheme to turn our democracy and our world's present and future over to corporations and the oligarchs that run them, that most Americans would consider to be an unspeakable crime, literally, if they knew about it. But we don't.
Infrastructure Construction would be subject to globalization requirements and likely outsourcing so both parties seem to be hiding that.
11 National Associations of Healthcare Workers Issue Letter demanding More protections for Health Workers.
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February 13, 2018 by Helen Stallard
Clementine Cake
I’ve been reading up on baby weaning lately and in so-doing, was prompted to revisit Nigella Lawson’s How to Eat. There’s a chapter buried in the back devoted to the feeding of babies….ten days later I’ve yet to get to said chapter for it turns out that this is the most distracting of books, a calming balm for the sleep-deprived cook.
A 1990s classic: How to Eat
Putting to one side the fact that Nigella drops into her introduction that she wrote How to Eat whilst pregnant / nursing (note, this is a whopper of a book with 500+ pages of dense prose. Already I feel inadequate, as I consider it a success if I manage to check my email in the course of a day, never mind write a classic. I suppose being monied helps), I am struck by how ahead of its time How to Eat was. The pages are full of foods that, as a student in 1998, I had heard of but would never dream to encounter: pomegranate molasses, marsala, quince. There is talk of Lebanese supermarkets and popping out for brioche and challah. Meat comes not with a dollop of mash, but with chick pea’d couscous and polenta.
At the time I felt myself to be terribly unsophisticated for not cooking like this on a daily basis (I was, but then so was 99.99% of the population). This was the food of the London sophisticate, recorded unapologetically, in a fashion that is now unpopular in the age of austerity and clean eating. I think I can thank Nigella for widening my culinary horizons… Twenty years on I can remember making some of her dishes – including walking three miles to the Co-op to try to find an aubergine (they didn’t have any) – and was beside myself the first time that I went to an actual real life Lebanese supermarket (it was in north London in about 2006 and the celery was amazing, in full leaf like the most over-the-top floral display).
In homage to Nigella, here’s her clementine cake, which I first made for a New Year’s Eve gathering in the early 2000s. It manages to be sweet but with an element of bitter, which comes from the inclusion of the whole fruit in the batter. I wasn’t so keen on it then, but I now prefer bakes that aren’t too sweet and I think it’s marvellous. Incidentally Sarah Raven has a similar cake in her Garden Cookbook, which I also turn to from time to time.
From Nigella Lawson’s How to Eat
First, put 5 clementines in a saucepan and simmer for about two hours, until completely soft. Leave to go cold, then remove any bits of stalk and pips, and whizz to a pulp in the food processor.
Simmer five clementines until totally soft then whizz to a pulp
Next, oil and line a 21cm springform tin and preheat the oven to 180c. Beat 6 eggs until just combined, then add 225g caster sugar, 250g almonds and 1 teaspoon baking powder. (If you’re short on almonds, you can use 150g almonds and 100g plain flour or, even better, a mixture of almonds and breadcrumbs. The cake will be lighter in texture but still good.) Stir in the orange pulp.
As well as your clementine pulp, have ready eggs, almonds and caster sugar (& baking powder, not shown)
Whisk eggs with the sugar and almonds
Add the clementines
Pour the lot into the tin and bake for about an hour. The cake will likely need to be covered with foil after about 40 minutes to stop it browning too much. Cool in the tin and then turn out, to be served naked or with cream and a dollop of fruit (rhubarb compote would be excellent).
Once baked – a not-too-sweet cake for tea or pudding
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Ask The Nuwaupians, Where is it written in Catholic literature that the name Catholic means Cat-Holistic?
Question: Ask The Nuwaupians, Where is it written in Catholic literature that the name Catholic means Cat-Holistic?
Answer: The cat is Holy and everything in Egipt is Holy so they go hand in hand!
That maybe Write Knowledge, but it's not reality driven. York wrote...
In Ancient Kham (Egypt), Bast Was A Cat Deity Who Was Worshiped By The Egyptians. This Is Where You Get Your Roman Catholic Church From, Which Is "Roman", CAT And HOLISTIC, Meaning "Cat Holy" Or "Holy Cat.
The Holy Cat Is Symbolic Of The Sphinx, Which Represents A Cat Man With The Face Of A Pharaoh And The Body Of The Lion And Also Represents The Egyptian Lion Of Judah Which Is Jupiter (Also Called Zeus)
-The Dog pg. 36
And the cat deity which became the holy cat symbol of the sphinx, protector of the pyramid. Henceforth we get the word CAT-HOLY-ISTIC or simply CATHOLIC, and they base their religion on death.
-Ancient Egypt and the Pharaohs pg. 176
York is seen in the following video teaching his Nuwaupians that Holy Cat is "Cat-holic" in section 3:33
http://youtu.be/EsgojqJXSV8
Catholic according to the Catholic Dictionary says...
(Greek: katholikos, universal)
The term in its primitive and non-ecclesiastical sense of universal, occurs in the Greek classics, and was freely used by the earlier Christian writers. The combination,
"the Catholic Church," is found for the first time in the Letter of Saint Ignatius to the Smyrneans, written about the year 110. The words run: Wheresoever the bishop shall appear, there let the people be, even as where Jesus may be, there is the universal (catholic) Church."
Catholic (adj.)
mid-14c., "of the doctrines of the ancient Church," literally "universally accepted," from Fr. catholique, from L.L. catholicus "universal, general," from Gk. katholikos, from phrase kath' holou "on the whole, in general," from kata "about" + gen. of holos "whole" (see safe (adj.)). Applied to the Church in Rome c.1554, after the Reformation began. General sense of "of interest to all, universal" is from 1550s. As a noun, attested from 1560s.
"The word Catholic (katholikos from katholou — throughout the whole, i.e., universal) occurs in the Greek classics, e.g., in Aristotle and Polybius, and was freely used by the earlier Christian writers in what we may call its primitive and non-ecclesiastical sense. Thus we meet such phrases as the "the catholic resurrection" (Justin Martyr), "the catholic goodness of God" (Tertullian), "the four catholic winds" (Irenaeus), where we should now speak of "the general resurrection", "the absolute or universal goodness of God", "the four principal winds", etc. The word seems in this usage to be opposed to merikos (partial) or idios (particular), and one familiar example of this conception still survives in the ancient phrase "Catholic Epistles" as applied to those of St. Peter, St. Jude, etc., which were so called as being addressed not to particular local communities, but to the Church at large".
Based on their Dictionary and basic research of the word Catholic, there is no mention of a holy cat (sacred feline) in connection with the ancient Egyptians, so why would York teach such a terrible deception to his Nuwaupians?
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Hotel Robots Deliver Room Service – and Fun
By representasia on 8 February 2016 Hotels, Technology
Your hotel’s newest bellhop may be a robot.
A Santa Clara, Calif., start-up and its “autonomous robot helpers” received $15 million in new financing last month. Savioke’s goal is to put robots in hotels across the country, building on its current stable of 12, including one near Los Angeles International Airport.
“We have lots of robots that are ready to go,” Savioke co-founder Tessa Lau said.
The 100-pound, 3-foot-tall Savioke robot, dubbed Relay, is built primarily to deliver extra towels, toothpaste or other necessities to guest rooms. The hotel staff punches in a room number on the robot’s touch screen and Relay rolls into the elevator and up to the designated room.
The robot doesn’t have arms and can communicate with guests only through typed messages that appear on its display screen. It uses Wi-Fi and 3-D cameras to navigate around the hotel.
The machines are probably the most “Jetsons”-like facet of the hospitality industry’s efforts to up its automation game.
Most new hotels have installed temperature control systems that shut off the heating and cooling when guest rooms are empty. A few hotels put computer tablets in the rooms that guests can use to order room service, request a taxi or close the blinds.
Major hotel operators such as Marriott International have created smartphone apps to let guests check in using their mobile devices. Hilton Worldwide now lets guests use their smartphones to open their hotel room doors in 112 hotels and plans to add the technology to its newest brand, Tru, which launches later this year.
Near Nagasaki, Japan, a hotel linked to a nearby amusement park is staffed entirely by robots. The guest room doors open using face-recognition software.
Still, hospitality industry experts disagree on how much automation U.S. hotel owners will accept, especially at high-end locations where guests expect staff to serve them with tailored attention and practiced obsequiousness.
“With robots, you don’t get personalized service,” said Steve Choe, general manager of the InterContinental Los Angeles Century City, a luxury hotel with 361 rooms, including 151 suites. “Those are the touches people still want.”
That may be true of most high-end hotels, said Lynn Mohrfeld, president of the California Hotel and Lodging Assn. But he suggested that robots would be popular at hotels that cater to millennials with a fascination for high-tech gadgets.
“In a four-star hotel in Silicon Valley, this would be a nice novelty,” he said.
Although Relay is primarily a novelty designed to attract tech-happy guests, hotel owners and managers say they are pursuing other automation technology to cut down on the industry’s two biggest expenses: staffing and energy costs.
Phone apps and kiosks that let guests check in faster free up front desk staff to attend to other guest needs, while technology that shuts down air-conditioning units when rooms are empty can save on expensive energy costs.
“Automating the heating and air conditioning makes sense, especially in places with wild swings in temperatures,” Mohrfeld said.
Savioke received its latest infusion of capital from Intel Capital, EDBI, the corporate investment arm of the Singapore Economic Development Board and Northern Light Venture Capital. The seed money for the company came from Google Ventures, the investment arm of the search engine giant, and a venture capital group led by former Yahoo executives, among others.
Hotels that order the robot pay Savioke a monthly fee that includes maintenance. The company declined to disclose the leasing fee.
At the Residence Inn by Marriott on Century Boulevard, the robot has been rolling the halls for a few months and was recently upgraded to deliver orders for Starbucks coffee.
Although the robot’s factory name is Relay, each hotel has given its machine a unique moniker. At the Residence Inn, they call it Wally. Other hotels have dubbed it Dash and Botlr.
Other California inns that employ Relay include the Crowne Plaza San Jose-Silicon Valley in Milpitas, the Grand Hotel in Sunnyvale, the Aloft Silicon Valley in Newark, the Aloft Cupertino in Cupertino and the Holiday Inn Express in Redwood City.
The robot, shaped like a giant flower vase, contains an enclosed compartment where hotel staff can put drinks, snacks or other items that guests order from the front desk. Toothpaste makes the trip most often.
When the machine isn’t in use, it can navigate back to the front desk to recharge its batteries.
Residence Inn General Manager Tom Beedon said the robot has been a big hit with guests, particularly young visitors who order things from the front desk just so they can post pictures of Wally on social media. (In lieu of tips, the robot asks for mentions on Twitter.)
“The feedback on social media has been over the top,” Beedon said.
On the Yelp review site, a guest who visited in October from Austin said: “Oh, my goodness, I just have to start by gushing over Wally; I am completely enamored with that little guy!”
The robot isn’t expected to take jobs away from human employees, Beedon said. Instead, it is more likely to free up front desk staff to do more complicated hotel chores, he said.
There are drawbacks to a delivery robot. After Wally brought fresh towels to a room a few weeks ago, the guest dumped his used, wet towels into the robot’s compartment. Wally promptly short-circuited.
“That was a sad day,” Beedon said. “It was like having an injured employee.”
After the robot was repaired, the general manager made a suggestion to Savioke: “They have to find a way to make that thing waterproof.”
Savioke is working on a fix, Lau said.
“The idea that someone would put wet towels in it never crossed our minds,” she said.
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Book #7 - Die Standing
Author: John Jackson Miller
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Philippa Georgiou has the unique experience of straddling two universes. The deposed ruler of the Terran Empire finds herself stuck in the prime universe, her unique skills a valuable asset for Section 13. While her extensive knowledge of areas of space, as yet unknown to Star Fleet, offers a tantalising pool from which to draw on, it also comes with a caveat. Philippa also knows the locations of superweapons with which she could rebuild her empire...
Star Trek: Discovery: Die Standing (385 pages) is a standalone novel, set in the Discovery universe and written by John Jackson Miller.
I always liked the character of Philippa, whether as the dead captain or the vibrantly alive empress, and a lot of this is down to Michelle Yeoh, who imbues her character with a lot more nuance than previous Trek villains, so much so, that it is hard to classify her as such. Her Philippa is strong, wilful, funny and vulnerable all at the same time. Her overriding characteristic is that she is endlessly mischievous. I draw attention to this because Miller has captured Yeoh’s performance perfectly, from the little asides to the plans within plans that is the character.
The book focusses wholly on Philippa and while some of the other characters from the show are mentioned tangentially, only Leland and Admiral Cornwell turn up in the book in any substantive role. The book does introduce one new major character, Emony Dax, a Trill, at a time in the Trills history when no one outside of their society knew they were a conjoined race.
The story opens in the Mirror universe when the Empress is at the height of her power. Power though can be fleeting so Philippa scours the universe of any major weapon which could ensure her reign and crush her enemies. On a mission to Troika space the ship she was to rendezvous with is destroyed before she can recover a mysterious new weapon, known only as Whipsaw.
Back in the prime universe the book takes you through a prison break, not strictly needed and would not have been missed if omitted, but it does demonstrate Philippa’s resourcefulness and how ruthless she can be.
We then come to the meat of the book. A starship has been crippled and most of the crew killed by a gas-like entity near Trioka space (Whipsaw?). Section 31 want her to infiltrate the system to see if she can discover the source of this entity, but with her knowledge as Empress, Philippa knows that, just possibly, there lies at the end of this particular path a weapon upon which she can build a new empire.
Although constrained by the technology and tropes of the Star Trek universe, what elevates the novel is Philippa’s dual perspective of the two universes. It allows an element of stranger in a strange land to creep in and you are never sure if she should be wary of Star Fleet or whether Star Fleet has a tiger by the tail.
An overall entertaining, well-paced adventure and one which is allowed to cut loose from the central characters of the shows. I would certainly be interested in reading the continuing adventures of the onetime Terran Empress.
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Another Meltdown / Bi xie lan tian (1998) Wai-Lun Lam, Wenzhuo Zhao, Qi Shu, Andrew Lin, Action, Thriller
A patriotic Chinese cop is reposted to fictional East European country Lavernia as punishment for ignoring orders during a plane hijack operation. There he encounters his ex-girlfriend, who fled to Lavernia after Tiananmen Square. Their paths soon tangle with the charismatic but evil leader of the Japanese cult Aum Shinryuu.
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Do We Need Many Genes for Phylogenetic Inference?
V. V. Aleshin1*, A. V. Konstantinova1, K. V. Mikhailov2, M. A. Nikitin2, and N. B. Petrov1
1Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119991 Moscow, Russia; fax: (495) 939-3181; E-mail: Aleshin@genebee.msu.su
2Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119991 Moscow, Russia
Received September 10, 2007
Fifty-six nuclear protein coding genes from Taxonomically Broad EST Database and other databases were selected for phylogenomic-based examination of alternative phylogenetic hypotheses concerning intergroup relationship between multicellular animals (Metazoa) and other representatives of Opisthokonta. The results of this work support sister group relationship between Metazoa and Choanoflagellata. Both of these groups form the taxon Holozoa along with the monophyletic Ichthyosporea or Mesomycetozoea (a group that includes Amoebidium parasiticum, Sphaeroforma arctica, and Capsaspora owczarzaki). These phylogenetic hypotheses receive high statistical support both when utilizing whole alignment and when only 5000 randomly selected alignment positions are used. The presented results suggest subdivision of Fungi into Eumycota and lower fungi, Chytridiomycota. The latter form a monophyletic group that comprises Chytridiales + Spizellomycetales + Blastocladiales (Batrachochytrium, Spizellomyces, Allomyces, Blastocladiella), contrary to the earlier reports based on the analysis of 18S rRNA and a limited set of protein coding genes. The phylogenetic distribution of genes coding for a ubiquitin-fused ribosomal protein S30 implies at least three independent cases of gene fusion: in the ancestors of Holozoa, in heterotrophic Heterokonta (Oomycetes and Blastocystis) and in the ancestors of Cryptophyta and Glaucophyta. Ubiquitin-like sequences fused with ribosomal protein S30 outside of Holozoa are not FUBI orthologs. Two independent events of FUBI replacement by the ubiquitin sequence were detected in the lineage of C. owczarzaki and in the monophyletic group of nematode worms Tylenchomorpha + Cephalobidae. Bursaphelenchus xylophilus (Aphelenchoidoidea) retains a state typical of the rest of the Metazoa. The data emphasize the fact that the reliability of phylogenetic reconstructions depends on the number of analyzed genes to a lesser extent than on our ability to recognize reconstruction artifacts.
KEY WORDS: molecular evolution, homoplasy, origin of multicellular organisms, secondary structure of SSU rRNA, Tylenchida
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Substitution of Ether Linkage for Ester Bond in Phospholipids Increases Permeability of Bilayer Lipid Membrane for SkQ1-Type Penetrating Cations
T. M. Il’yasova1, T. I. Rokitskaya1, I. I. Severina2, Y. N. Antonenko1*, and V. P. Skulachev1
1Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119991 Moscow, Russia; E-mail: antonen@mail.genebee.msu.ru
2Biological Faculty, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119991 Moscow, Russia
Received June 7, 2012
Using dialkylphospholipid (diphytanyl phosphatidylcholine) instead of the conventional diacylphospholipid (diphytanoyl phosphatidylcholine) in planar lipid bilayer membranes (BLM) led to an increase in the diffusion potential of the penetrating cation plastoquinonyl-decyl-triphenylphosphonium (SkQ1), making it close to the Nernst value, and accelerated translocation of SkQ1 across the BLM as monitored by the kinetics of a decrease in the transmembrane electric current after applying a voltage (current relaxation). The consequences of changing from an ester to an ether linkage between the head groups and the hydrocarbon chains are associated with a substantial reduction in the membrane dipole potential known to originate from dipoles of tightly bound water molecules and carbonyl groups in ester bonds. The difference in the dipole potential between BLM formed of the ester phospholipid and that of the ether phospholipid was estimated to be 100 mV. In the latter case, suppression of SkQ1-mediated proton conductivity of the BLM was also observed.
KEY WORDS: BLM, phospholipid, proton conductivity, dipole potential, SkQ1
Abbreviations: BLM, planar bilayer phospholipid membrane; C12R4, dodecylrhodamine B cation; diphytanoyl PC, 1,2-diphytanoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine; diphytanyl PC, 1,2-di-O-phytanyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine; SkQ1, plastoquinonyl triphenylphosphonium cation.
Yefim A. Liberman became famous as an outstanding experimenter due to his work on planar bilayer phospholipid membranes (BLM) [1-3]. These experiments, launched in the 1960s, contributed to the proof of the chemiosmotic hypothesis of oxidative phosphorylation, the author of which, Peter Mitchell, was later awarded the Nobel Prize. In our experiments we also used BLM as a test system for studies of penetrating properties of the new class of antioxidants of SkQ1 type and their analogs synthesized in our laboratory [4-8]. While conducting these experiments on the BLM, we encountered certain difficulty: at low SkQ concentrations the value of SkQ diffusion potential did not reach the values calculated on the basis of the Nernst equation (about 60 mV per 10-fold gradient of the cation), and increasing the concentration of the tested cation led to destabilization of the BLM due to the detergent effect of this type of compounds. More stable “colored” (thick) phospholipid membranes provided higher values of diffusion potentials. However, it is the “black” BLM, and not the “colored” membranes, that can serve as an adequate model of biological membranes, which always have areas of phospholipid bilayer.
In the early work of Liberman and Topaly (1969), it was noted that similar in structure penetrating cations and anions (tetraphenylphosphonium and tetraphenylborate) have completely different permeability through neutral membranes, the permeability of anions being substantially higher [9]. They suggested the formation of a layer of dipoles at the membrane-water interface to be responsible for this phenomenon; these dipoles were assumed to be oriented with their positive charge towards the inside of the membrane. Further research conducted in different laboratories not only confirmed this suggestion, but also made it possible to determine the contribution of various phospholipid components in the formation of this dipole potential [10]. In particular, it was shown that a significant proportion of the dipole potential is formed by carbonyls, which are part of the ester bond of fatty acids and glycerol in phospholipids [11]. Synthetic phospholipids differing only in the type of this bond (esters and ethers) were shown to have dipole potentials with about 120 mV difference, the ether potential value being smaller. In this paper, we present results of studies of permeability of SkQ1 and its analogs for BLM made of phospholipids with residues of phytanic acid (diphytanoyl PC) or residues of phytol (diphytanyl PC; Fig. 1). In accordance with the predictions of the dipole potential theory, the permeability of the studied cations was substantially higher in the case of diphytanyl PC (when compared to diphytanoyl PC).
Fig. 1. Structures of diphytanyl PC, diphytanoyl PC, C12R4, and SkQ1.
The permeability of planar bilayer phospholipid membranes (BLM) was measured in a Teflon cell with two compartments separated by a Teflon septum with a hole 0.6-mm in diameter, where a membrane was formed from one of the two phospholipids: diphytanoyl PC or diphytanyl PC (both at the concentration of 20 mg/ml in decane). Electrical parameters were measured by two AgCl electrodes immersed in a cell on the two sides of the membrane using a Keithley 6617 amplifier (Keithley, USA) for measuring transmembrane electrical potential difference and the patch-clamp amplifier OES-2 (Opus, Russia) for measuring the current through the membrane.
The structures of the compounds used in this study are shown in Fig. 1. Figure 2 shows the kinetics of the generation of SkQ1 diffusion potential on BLM composed of either diphytanoyl PC or diphytanyl PC. The potential was positive in the compartment with the lower SkQ1 concentration. The process was initiated by the addition of 1 μM SkQ1 to one of the compartments that originally contained 0.1 μM SkQ1. The kinetics of the potential generation for diphytanyl PC was faster than that for diphytanoyl PC (see Fig. 2). In addition, the magnitude of the stationary potential was greater for diphytanyl PC. Figure 3 presents the values of SkQ1 diffusion potential as a function of the concentration of this cation in one of the two compartments of the experimental cell separated by the BLM. SkQ1 concentration in the other compartment was constant at 0.1 μM. As seen from the figure, the potential values on the diphytanoyl PC BLM were significantly lower than Nernstian (dashed line), which corresponds to the results of our previous experiments [3-7]. However, for a diphytanyl PC BLM the potentials were close to Nernstian values.
Fig. 2. Kinetics of generation of SkQ1 diffusion potential. The initial SkQ1 concentration in both cell compartments was 0.1 μM. One micromolar SkQ1 was added at zero time to one of the compartments. The incubation mixture contained 10 mM Tris, 10 mM MES, and 10 mM KCl (pH 7.0).
Fig. 3. Dependence of SkQ1 diffusion potential on the concentration gradient of this cation. In one of the compartments [SkQ1] = 0.1 μM. SkQ1 concentration in the other compartment is given on the abscissa. Incubation mixture as in Fig. 2.
Figure 4 shows the time dependence of current through the BLM in the presence of SkQ1 in response to an application of 150 mV potential to the diphytanyl PC membrane. The application of the potential difference leads to the appearance of a current that decreases with time (current relaxation). As shown earlier, this process is associated with redistribution of the SkQ1 cation between the two sides of the membrane in response to the application of the transmembrane electric field [8]. Significant binding of SkQ1 at the “membrane–water” interface is an important condition for current relaxation. The gray curve in Fig. 4 represents an approximation to the data with a monoexponential curve I = I + (I0 – I)·exp(–t/τ). The characteristic relaxation time (τ) for this process was 11 sec. The subsequent recording shows the current relaxation in response to the removal of the potential. The gray curve in this part of the figure represents an approximation with a monoexponential model with a relaxation time of 23 sec. It should be noted that we could not obtain reliable records of SkQ1 current relaxation for the diphytanoyl PC membrane. For membranes prepared from total E. coli phospholipid, the relaxation time values were significantly higher (τ was close to 60 sec) [8]. Thus, we conclude that the data on the current relaxation also suggest a significantly higher permeability of SkQ1 through the diphytanyl PC membrane than through the diphytanoyl PC membrane.
Fig. 4. Recording of current through a diphytanyl PC BLM in the presence of 2 μM SkQ1 upon application to the membrane of +150 mV, followed by removal of the potential. The gray curves are monoexponential approximations with time constants of 11 and 23 sec. Medium composition: 100 mM KCl, 10 mM Tris, pH 7.4.
Reliable data on cation permeability for the studied lipids were obtained for the cationic derivative of rhodamine B – C12R4 (Fig. 1). Figure 5 shows recordings of the current induced by C12R4 in response to the application of 100 mV potential for membranes composed of these lipids. The relaxation kinetics are clearly much faster for diphytanyl PC (the time scale for the upper panel is 10 sec, while for the bottom panel it is 0.35 sec). The characteristic relaxation time τ for diphytanyl PC is 0.03 sec, and for diphytanoyl PC it is 1.36 sec (gray curves in Fig. 5).
Fig. 5. Recording of the current in diphytanoyl PC BLM (a) or diphytanyl PC BLM (b) in the presence of 0.1 μM C12R4 upon application to the membrane of +100 mV potential. The gray lines are monoexponential curves with time constants of 1.36 sec (a) and 0.03 sec (b). Medium composition: 100 mM KCl, 10 mM Tris, pH 7.4.
As noted above, the higher cation permeability through the diphytanyl PC membranes is caused by the lower value of the dipole potential of lipids that have ether linkages and therefore contain no carbonyl groups. The magnitude of the dipole potential change can be estimated in our experiments on the basis of the ratio of permeabilities of C12R4 for these two membranes in accordance with the equation [12]
ΔV = (RT/F)log(τ1/τ2) = 98 mV.
This value was shown to be somewhat less than 120 mV observed for hexadecyl phosphatidylcholine membranes [11], but the values are rather similar. For dioleoyl phosphatidylcholine membranes the difference of 110 mV was observed [13]. The difference in these values may be due to differences in the contributions of other components of the dipole potential, particularly in the differences between the structure of tightly bound water for the membranes composed of lipids containing phytol and hexadecyl alcohol.
The question arises whether the magnitude of the dipole potential of artificial membranes corresponds to that of natural membranes. Unfortunately, the literature provides no quantitative estimates of the dipole potential on the plasma membranes of cells or mitochondria, although there are a few studies indicating the involvement of the dipole potential in a number of processes taking place in plasma membranes [14]. We think that the presence of peptides and proteins in natural membranes should substantially decrease the dipole potential determined by phospholipids, since they inevitably disturb the continuity of the layer of dipoles of carbonyl groups of phospholipid ester bonds. So the dipole potential of mitochondrial membranes should be closer to that of the diphytanyl PC BLM, and the permeability of these membranes to SkQ1 should be higher than that of diphytanoyl PC BLM.
In addition to the influence of the nature of the phospholipid on the permeability of the cations, we also examined the generation of the diffuse potential of hydrogen ions caused by formation of ΔpH on the BLM. The fact is that in earlier experiments we observed some induction of proton conductivity of membranes caused by SkQ1. This effect could be attributed to the combined action of the penetrating cation SkQ1 and fatty acids [15], which appear in the phospholipid as a result of its spontaneous hydrolysis. Since diphytanyl PC contains residues of only phytol, spontaneous hydrolysis would lead to the formation of phytol, which cannot be protonated (in contrast to a fatty acid anion that can bind H+, this process being necessary for the creation of proton conductivity of a BLM). Figure 6 shows the generation of diffusion potential of H+ in the presence of 1 μM SkQ1. Addition of KOH to one of the compartments caused a pH change of 1 unit. As a result, a small but measurable potential (positive in the compartment with lower H+ concentration) was generated for the diphytanoyl PC BLM. In the case of the diphytanyl PC membrane, no potential could be observed, i.e. SkQ1 did not cause the appearance of measurable proton conductivity in such a BLM. Our results support the conclusion that SkQ1-induced proton conductivity of a BLM is determined by the presence of fatty acids produced in the course of hydrolysis of ester bonds between the residues of fatty acid and glycerol in the phospholipid molecule.
Fig. 6. Generation of H+ diffusion potential in the presence of 1 μM SkQ1 in both cell compartments separating a BLM. Initially, the pH in both compartments was 7.0. At 75 sec after the start of the experiment, KOH was added to one of the compartments so as to shift the pH in this compartment to 8.0.
Determining the conditions for obtaining Nernstian diffusion potentials for an SkQ1 gradient on a BLM opens up the possibility to use such a BLM as an SkQ1-sensitive electrode for measuring the absorption of SkQ1 by animal cells, mitochondria, and bacteria. This possibility to measure SkQ1 concentration has several advantages over other analytical methods such as chromatography. In this case, it becomes possible to directly measure the kinetics of SkQ1 absorption or release by living systems without the stage of sampling, separation of chemical components, and their subsequent analysis. Such measurements were effective for measuring the concentration of tetraphenylphosphonium cation in the incubation medium to estimate the value of membrane potential in isolated mitochondria and permeabilized hepatocytes [3, 16, 17].
The authors express their gratitude to G. A. Korshunova and N. V. Sumbatyan for the synthesis of the penetrating cations and to D. A. Cherepanov for his suggestion to study diphytanyl PC.
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laplace transform using calculator So if we take the Laplace Transform of both sides of this, the right-hand side is going to be 2 over s squared plus 4. See full list on tutorial. " It takes in a function f(t) and spits out a new function F(). Using the Laplace transform technique we can solve for the homogeneous and particular solutions at the same time. The statement of the formula is as follows: Let f ( t ) be a continuous function on the interval [0, ∞) of exponential order, i. Integration of Transforms. Taking the Laplace transform of both sides of the equation with respect to t, we obtain Rearranging and substituting in the boundary condition U(x, 0) = 6e -3x , we get Note that taking the Laplace transform has transformed the partial differential equation into an ordinary differential equation. Not only is it an excellent tool to solve differential equations, but it also helps in obtaining a qualitative understanding of how a system will behave and how changing certain parameters will effect the dynamic response. Such systems occur frequently in control theory, circuit design, and other engineering applications. f (t) = 1 + 2t b. As we will show below: Now, we can invert Y(s). Jul 18, 2020 · The calculator above performs a regular Laplace Transform. Definition of Final Value Theorem of Laplace Transform If f (t) and f' (t) both are Laplace Transformable and sF (s) has no pole in jw axis and in the R. Using Mathcad Mathcad can help us in find both Laplace transform and inverse Laplace transform. We perform the Laplace transform for both sides of the given equation. This calculator, which makes calculations very simple and interesting. edu. The Laplace transform of exists only for complex values of s in a half-plane . L(sin(6t)) = 6 s2 +36. Method of Laplace Transform. A function fis piecewise continuous on an interval t2[a;b] if Take the Laplace transform of each differential equation using a few transforms. Free Laplace Transform calculator - Find the Laplace and inverse Laplace transforms of functions step-by-step This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience. However, the usefulness of Laplace transforms is by no means restricted to this class of problems. laplace transform calculator show steps laplace transform Jul 01, 2016 · Table of Laplace Transforms f(t) L[f(t)] = F(s) 1 1 s (1) eatf(t) F(s a) (2) U(t a) e as s (3) f(t a)U(t a) e asF(s) (4) (t) 1 (5) (t stt 0) e 0 (6) tnf(t) ( 1)n dnF(s) dsn (7) f0(t) sF(s) f(0) (8) fn(t) snF(s) s(n 1)f(0) (fn 1)(0) (9) Z t 0 f(x)g(t x)dx F(s)G(s) (10) tn (n= 0;1;2;:::) n! sn+1 (11) tx (x 1 2R) ( x+ 1) sx+1 (12) sinkt k s2 + k2 Jan 15, 2018 · Basic Laplace and Inverse Laplace Transforms. Before using functions set TI-92 MODE Complex Format to RECTANGULAR Angle to RADIAN Exact/Approx to AUTO You have to do these settings yourself because; the programs cannot change the mode setting on the calculator. f (t) = (t + 1)2 d. lamar. You can see this transform or integration process converts f (t), a function of the symbolic variable t, into another function F (s), with another variable s. Such ideas are seen in 2nd-year university mathematics courses. As an example, from the Laplace Transforms Table, we see that Written in the inverse transform notation L−1 � 6 s2 +36 � = sin(6t). We will use this idea to solve differential equations, but the method also can be used to sum series or compute integrals. May 12, 2019 · To solve this problem using Laplace transforms, we will need to transform every term in our given differential equation. Key Words: Laplace Transform, Differential Equation, Inverse Laplace Transform, Linearity, Convolution Theorem. 2. Aug 01, 2020 · Computer algebra systems have now replaced tables of Laplace transforms just as the calculator has replaced the slide rule. When a higher order differential equation is given, Laplace transform is applied to it which converts the equation into an algebraic equation, thus making it easier to handle. Redraw the circuit (nothing about the Laplace transform changes the types of elements or their interconnections). Following are the Laplace transform and inverse Laplace transform equations. Background: The Laplace transform is a primary way to study the stability and evolution of linearized dynamical systems, because it turns them into algebraic systems. Post's inversion formula for Laplace transforms, named after Emil Post, is a simple-looking but usually impractical formula for evaluating an inverse Laplace transform. com using variation of parameters or the method of undetermined coefficients. Laplace transform converts many time-domain operations such as differentiation, integration, convolution, time shifting into algebraic operations in s-domain. Your solution Answer Right from inverse laplace transform calculator to matrices, we have got all the pieces covered. Transform of Unit Step Functions; 5. 4 1. 2: Using the Heaviside function write down the piecewise function that is \(0 Inverse Laplace transforms for second-order underdamped responses are provided in the Table in terms of ω n and δ and in terms of general coefficients (Transforms #13–17). The inverse transform can also be computed using MATLAB. Some Important Properties of Laplace Transforms The Laplace transforms of difierent functions can be found in most of the mathematics and engineering books and hence, is not According to ISO 80000-2*), clauses 2-18. The multidimensional Laplace transform is given by . ], in the place holder type Laplace transform makes the equations simpler to handle. Below, the differential formula of a time-domain kind first changed to the algebraic equation of frequency… Roy — December 18, 2020 The equation above yields what the Laplace Transform is for any function of the form tneat, t n e a t, where n n and a a are arbitrary scalars. Here differential equation of time domain form is first transformed to algebraic equation of frequency domain form. The Nature of the s-Domain; Strategy of the Laplace Transform; Analysis of Electric Circuits; The Importance of Poles and Zeros; Filter Design in the s-Domain Laplace Transform Theory - 1 Existence of Laplace Transforms Before continuing our use of Laplace transforms for solving DEs, it is worth digressing through a quick investigation of which functions actually have a Laplace transform. , Fourier) domain! 0 A( ) A( ) vo vo σ ω s = = And therefore, for the inverting configuration: 2 1 () A( ) () oc . Using the Laplace Transform to Solve Initial Value Problems. Calculate differential equation using matlab, laplace transformation ti-89 Lars Frederiksen, square worksheets, where would i go to get help online with my Alebra homework. Laplace transform is yet another operational tool for solving constant coe- cients linear dierential equations. You can think of the Laplace transform as some kind of abstract \machine. Consider an LTI system exited by a complex exponential signal of the form x (t) = Ge st. The inverse Laplace transform We can also define the inverse Laplace transform: given a function X(s) in the s-domain, its inverse Laplace transform L−1[X(s)] is a function x(t) such that X(s) = L[x(t)]. I am trying to find out the inverse Laplace transform of the state transition matrix obtained using inv(S*I-A). Then using linearity of Laplace transformation and then the table, we have Essentially the trick is to reduce the given function to one of the elementary functions whose Laplace transform may be found in the table. using a calculator free worksheet online algebra games simplify and explain for dummies matrices in algebra laplace texas ti89 ti-83+ factoring program java Latin is a free inverse Laplace calculator for Windows. We can also do transformations to equations involving derivatives and integrals. Example 1: Find the inverse Laplace transform of each of the given function: F(s) = (2/s) + 3/(s - 4) The Laplace transform of a function, f(t), is defined as 0 Fs()f(t)ftestdt(3-1) ==L∫∞ − where F(s) is the symbol for the Laplace transform, Lis the Laplace transform operator, and f(t) is some function of time, t. A Useful Analogy. Let’s see how we can use (14) as the starting point to determine a solution to Laplace’s equation with specific boundary conditions. Usually, to find the Laplace Transform of a function, one uses partial fraction decomposition (if needed) and then consults the table of Laplace Transforms. Solve for the output variable. Put initial conditions into the resulting equation. 13. iLaplace transforms from Laplace to time domain. Laplace Transform Calculator Laplace Transform Calculator is a free online tool that displays the transformation of the real variable function to the complex variable. When we come to solve differential equations using Laplace transforms we shall use the following alternative notation: [ ] = L x x & [ ] = − L x s x x (0) &&[ ] 2 = − − L x s x s x x & (0) (0) . 6 The Transfer Function and the Convolution Integral. Since the Laplace Transform is a linear transform, we need only find three inverse transforms. Find the inverse transform of Y(s). The function is known as determining function, depends on. By using this website, you agree to our Cookie Policy. 7. Math stories or problems using elimination and substitution, how to find the lcd of fractions, GRAPH OF NEGATIVE X-CUBED, hard algebraic problem, cheating on your maths in Aug 12, 2017 · Laplace Transform is the method to find the solutions of ordinary differential equations. C. S. Conseqently, Laplace transforms may be used to solve linear differential equations with constant coefficients as follows: Take Laplace transforms of both sides of equation using property above to express derivatives Solve for F(s), Y(s), etc. Inverse Laplace transform inprinciplewecanrecoverffromF via f(t) = 1 2…j Z¾+j1 ¾¡j1 F(s)estds where¾islargeenoughthatF(s) isdeflnedfor<s‚¾ surprisingly,thisformulaisn’treallyuseful! The Laplace transform 3{13 Aug 31, 2015 · Introduction Transformation in mathematics deals with the conversion of one function to another function that may not be in the same domain. All right, in this first example we will use this nice characteristics of the derivative of the Laplace transform to find transform for the function . 2-3 Circuit Analysis in the s Domain. Take the Laplace transforms of both sides of an equation. The Laplace transform extends this approach by incorporating damped as well as steady-state sinusoids. Transform of Periodic Functions; 6. If the money really an issue, you can get both of these used. For Laplace transforms, the second and third arguments will typically be t and s, respectively. Then, by definition, f is the inverse transform of F. An important property of the Laplace transform is: This property is widely used in solving differential equations because it allows to reduce the latter to algebraic ones. The Laplace Transform The Laplace transform of a function of time f (t) is given by the following integral − Laplace transform is also denoted as transform of f (t) to F (s). This transform is also extremely useful in physics and engineering. While tables of Laplace transforms are widely available, it is important to understand the properties of the Laplace transform so that you can construct your own table. Laplace transforms find uses in solving initial value problems that involve linear, ordinary differential equations with constant coefficients. In frequency-domainanalysis, we break the input x(t) into exponentials componentsof the form est, where s is the complex frequency: The Laplace transform is a technique for analyzing these special systems when the signals are continuous. We define the Laplace transform of a function f in the following way. Using Laplace transforms is a common method of solving linear systems of differential equations with initial conditions. 1 Transforms of derivatives. Solution. The integral R R f(t)e¡stdt converges if jf(t)e¡stjdt < 1;s = ¾ +j! A. To multiple two numbers we convert each number into their respective logarithm and add. (e) the Laplace Transform does not exist (singular at t = 0). Inverse of a Product L f g t f s ĝ s where Solution- Using the formula for taking the Laplace transform of a derivative, we get that the Laplace transform of the left side of the differential equation is: (s2X(s)−sx(0)− x′(0))−6(sX(s)−x(0))+8X(s). INTRODUCTION The Laplace Transform is a widely used integral transform Oct 22, 2020 · Laplace transformation is a technique for solving differential equations. To find the Laplace Transform of a piecewise defined function , select Laplace Transform in the Main Menu, next select option3 “Piecewise defined function” in the dropdown menu as shown below: Next, enter the two pieces/functions as shown below. It handles initial conditions up front, not at the end of the process. Solving initial value problems using the method of Laplace transforms To solve a linear differential equation using Laplace transforms, there are only 3 basic steps: 1. Inverse Laplace transform calculator is the quick online tool which can instantly give solution to the integrals. Let us see how the Laplace transform is used for differential equations. On page 370 it shows the following for Laplace Transform: Laplace transform converts a time domain function to s-domain function by integration from zero to infinity of the time domain function, multiplied by e-st. Apr 13, 2018 · 2. Inverse Laplace transform of: Variable of function: Time variable: Submit: Computing Get this widget. This makes the problem much easier to solve. 1 The Fourier transform and series of basic signals (Contd. I do not have any user variables defined as 's' or 't'. So, let’s Or, we can use the Fourier transform Now, recall that the variable s is a complex frequency: sj=σ+ ω. Laplace Transforms with Examples and Solutions Solve Differential Equations Using Laplace Transform Find the Laplace transform of the matrix M. Solve by inverse Laplace transform: (tables) Solution is obtained by a getting the inverse Laplace transform from a table Alternatively we can use partial fraction expansion to compute the solution using simple inverse transforms Laplace Transform The Laplace transform can be used to solve di erential equations. To convert Laplace transform to Fourier tranform, replace s with j*w, where w is the radial frequency. See more ideas about math formulas, physics and mathematics, mathematics. Dec 16, 2019 · Laplace Transform of the Dirac Delta Function using the TiNspire Calculator To find the Laplace Transform of the Dirac Delta Function just select the menu option in Differential Equations Made Easy from www. The Laplace transform is a particularly elegant way to solve linear differential equations with constant coefficients. f (t) = e-t + 2e-2t + te-3t C. The transform allows equations in the "time domain" to be transformed into an equivalent equation in the Complex S Domain. 1 and 2-18. Example 6. Algebraic, Exponential, Logarithmic, Trigonometric, Inverse Trigonometric, Hyperbolic, and Inverse Hyperbolic Laplace transforms find important applications in solving ordinary differential equations with discontinuities. Be-sides being a di erent and e cient alternative to variation of parame-ters and undetermined coe cients, the Laplace method is particularly advantageous for input terms that are piecewise-de ned, periodic or im-pulsive. In time-domain analysis, we break input x(t) into impulsive component, and sum the system response to all these components. This simple equation is solved by purely algebraic manipulations. The Laplace transform of a constant multiplied by a function equals the constant multiplied by the transform: L { a f (t) } = a L { f (t) } An integer polynomial is a polynomial where each term has an integer coefficient, and a non-negative order Mar 05, 2016 · laplace transform 1. Use the Laplace transform version of the sources and the other components become impedances. 1. Find the inverse Laplace Transform of . Any voltages or currents with values given are Laplace-transformed using the functional and operational tables. LAPLACE TRANSFORM METHODS we get bx(s) = s2 (s¡1)(s2+2s¡3) a 2. To use Mathcad to find Laplace transform, we first enter the expres-sion of the function, then press [Shift][Ctrl][. Laplace transform is the dual(or complement) of the time-domain analysis. However, before we can solve differential equations, we need to look at the reverse process of finding functions of t from given Laplace transforms. Integro-Differential Equations and Systems of DEs; 10 Apr 29, 2012 · Mar 9, 2019 - Explore Mohammad Amir's board "Laplace transform" on Pinterest. laplace y′′−10y′ + 9y = 5t,y (0) = −1,y′ (0) = 2 laplace y′ + 2y = 12sin (2t),y (0) = 5 laplace y′′−6y′ + 15y = 2sin (3t),y (0) = −1,y′ (0) = −4 laplace dy dt + 2y = 12sin (2t),y (0) = 5 May 21, 2020 · A Special Video Presentation🎦Reverse Engineering Method for Finding the Laplace Transform of a Function Using Calculator! Shout out to @EngineeringWinsPH😍📑 Y Laplace Transform Calculator. And overlook to use the inverted Laplace transform side. in units of radians per second (rad/s). Property B For rational Laplace transforms the ROC does not contain any poles. Following table mentions Laplace transform of various functions. This is used to solve differential equations. 25. When such a differential equation is transformed into Laplace space, the result is an algebraic equation, which is much easier to solve. Let Y(s) be the Laplace transform of y(t). Properties of Laplace Transform; 4. Like all transforms, the Laplace transform changes one signal into another according to some fixed set of rules or equations. topic name: laplace transform electrical department student’s name enrollment number anuj verma 141240109003 karnveer chauhan 141240109011 machhi nirav 141240109012 malek muajhidhusen 141240109013 dhariya parmar 141240109014 jayen parmar 141240109015 parth yadav 141240109016 harsh patel Otherwise, join us now to start using these powerful webMathematica calculators. The process of solution consists of three main steps: The given \hard" problem is transformed into a \simple" equation. We can apply the Laplace Transform integral to more than just functions. Transform the circuit. These slides are not a resource provided by your lecturers in this unit. It is easy to calculate Laplace transforms with Sage. When the arguments are nonscalars, laplace acts on them element-wise. Apr 05, 2019 · IVP’s with Step Functions – This is the section where the reason for using Laplace transforms really becomes apparent. Using Inverse Laplace to Solve DEs; 9. This Laplace transform turns differential equations in time, into algebraic equations in the Laplace domain thereby making them easier to solve. How about the translation? That was taken care of by the exponential factor. T. Oct 25, 2020 · This can be done by using the property of Laplace Transform known as Final Value Theorem. where c is chosen so that all singular points of f ( s ) lie to the left of the line Re { s } = c in the complex plane s . Laplace Transform Calculator is online tool to find laplace transform of a given function f(t). See the Laplace Transforms workshop if you need to revise this topic rst. f (t) = t? + e-2t sin (3t) f. 1 Transforms of Derivatives The Main Identity To see how the Laplace transform can convert a differential equation to a simple algebraic equation, let us examine how the transform of a function’s derivative, L f ′(t) s = L df dt s = Z ∞ 0 df e−st dt = Z ∞ e−st df dt , is related to the corresponding transform of the original Laplace Transform (inttrans Package) Introduction The laplace Let us first define the laplace transform: The invlaplace is a transform such that . f (t) 1 3t 5e2 2e 10t. Here time-domain is t and S-domain is s. Come to Algebra-equation. Transcribed Image Text 2. Here, s can be either a real variable or a complex quantity. Laplace transformation is a powerful method of solving linear differential equations. The Laplace Transform is applied to each terms at first and then the Inverse Laplace Transform is applied at the end after solving them to get the answer in our actual given domain. Definition 6. Lff(t)g= Z 1 0 e stf(t)dt= F(s); L 1fF(s)g= f(t) Apply the Laplace transform to u(x;t) and to the PDE. P. The same thing with the b. The Laplace transform is linear, and is the sum of the transforms for the two terms: If , i. 1 Introduction The Laplace transform provides an effective method of solving initial-value problems for linear differential equations with constant coefficients. The Laplace transform is used to quickly find solutions for differential equations and integrals. For most pharmacokinetic problems we only need the Laplace transform for a constant, a variable and a differential. Jan 16, 2005 · The Laplace Transform. Laplace transform with a Heaviside function by Nathan Grigg The formula To compute the Laplace transform of a Heaviside function times any other function, use L n u c(t)f(t) o = e csL n f(t+ c) o: Think of it as a formula to get rid of the Heaviside function so that you can just compute the Laplace transform of f(t+ c), which is doable. The Fourier transform of a multiplication of 2 functions is equal to the convolution of the Fourier transforms of each function: Convolution calculator; Laplace How to solve: Use the Laplace transform to solve the following initial value problem y'' - 4y' - 32y = 0 y(0) = 4, y'(0) = 3 (a) First, using Y for Teachers for Schools for Working Scholars Salzer's Method for Numerical Evaluation of Inverse Laplace Transform Involving a Bessel Function Housam Binous; Integral Evaluation Using the Monte Carlo Method Housam Binous and Brian G. Boyd EE102 Lecture 7 Circuit analysis via Laplace transform † analysisofgeneralLRCcircuits † impedanceandadmittancedescriptions † naturalandforcedresponse I am trying to find out the inverse Laplace transform of the state transition matrix obtained using inv(S*I-A). So far, the Laplace transform simply gives us another method with which we can solve initial value problems for linear di erential equa-tions with constant coe cients. Example: Compute the inverse Laplace transform q(t) of Q(s) = 3s (s2 +1)2 You could compute q(t) by partial fractions, but there’s a less tedious way. If your instructor (or your personal inclination) allows/wants you to load applications/programs, the basic ones (which with all due respect, describe your courses) will work on both models. † Deflnition of Laplace transform, † Compute Laplace transform by deflnition, including piecewise continuous functions. From the application point of view, the Inverse Laplace Transform is very usefrl. Then, we nd y(t) using the formula y(t) = v(t t 0). Like the Fourier transform, it is used for solving the integral equations. Dirichlet's conditions are used to define the existence of Laplace transform. Take the Laplace Transform of the differential equation using the derivative property (and, perhaps, others) as necessary. From a table of Laplace transforms, we can redefine each term in the differential equation. Note that there is not a good symbol in the equation editor for the Laplace transform. Where s = any complex number = σ + j ω, Laplace transforms are a convenient method of converting differential equations into integrated equations, that is, integrating the differential equation. When solving initial-value problems using the Laplace transform, we perform the following steps in sequence: 1) Apply the Laplace Transform to both sides of the equation. Among these is the design and analysis of control systems featuring feedback from the output to the input. This operation is the inverse of the direct Laplace transform, where the function is found for a given function . Then we calculate the roots by simplification of this algebraic equation. Take inverse Laplace transform to attain ultimate solution of equation The Laplace transform The Laplace transform is a mathematical tool that is commonly used to solve differential equations. Where I is the identity matrix, and A is a state-space matrix(24x24 matrix). 2: Transforms of Derivatives and ODEs. Laplace Transform of the sine of at is equal to a over s squared plus a squared. Why is doing something like this important – there are tables of Laplace transforms all over the place, aren’t they? The answer is to this is a firm "maybe". Complex frequency is defined as follows: To compute the direct Laplace transform, use laplace. TI-84 Plus SE. 647-649. For example, suppose that we wish to compute the Laplace transform of \(f(x) = t^3 e^t - \cos t\text{. Exercise 6. These slides cover the application of Laplace Transforms to Heaviside functions. This calculator performs the Inverse Laplace Transform of the input function. 1 Figure 1. f(t) = U2(t)*e^(-t) I know how to use the Laplace transform by using the calcolator but I don't know how to add the Unit Step Function (U2). Any time you actually need advice with math and in particular with laplace transform calculator or variable come visit us at Algebra1help. studysmarter. Here, a is 2. 3. Example: Again we can use this to find a new transforms: Use "Integration of transform" to find an inverse of a transform: Find : The Inverse Transform Lea f be a function and be its Laplace transform. Simplify algebraically the result to solve for L{y} = Y(s) in terms of s. L[tneat] = n! (s −a)n+1 L [ t n e a t] = n! (s - a) n + 1 In general, Laplace Transforms "operate on a function to yield another function" (Poking, Boggess, Arnold, 190). uwa. many many many thanks for any help. y''=s^2Y (s)-sy (0)-y' (0) y Dec 17, 2018 · The Laplace transform is an integral transform used in solving differential equations of constant coefficients. Inverse Laplace Transform is used in solving differential equations without finding the gen- eral solution and arbitrary constants. 2) Solve the resulting algebra problem from step 1. Higgins ; Comparing Four Methods of Numerical Inversion of Laplace Transforms (NILT) Claude Montella and Jean-Paul Diard It is obtained by taking the Laplace transform of impulse response h(t). If we set σ=0, then sj= ω, and the functions Zs() and A( ) vo s in the Laplace domain can be written in the frequency (i. Laplace transform calculator is the online tool which can easily reduce any given differential equation into an algebraic expression as the answer. Workshop resources:These slides are available online: www. 4-5 The Transfer Function and Natural Response. i. Definition 4. This is going to be 2 over s squared plus 4. These types of problems usually arise in modelling of phenomena. Transforms of Integrals; 7. Sep 23, 2015 · Around 1785, Pierre-Simon marquis de Laplace, a French mathematician and physicist, pioneered a method for solving differential equations using an integral transform. The possible advantages are that we Apr 13, 2018 · 2. For this purpose, let’s use the example in Boas pp. com I'm looking for a "polite" way to calculate this integral using Laplace transform: $$ \int_0^{+\infty} \frac{e^{-ax} - e^{-bx} }{x} dx. Build your own widget But what about the second one? If I use the inverse Laplace Transform of the product $\cfrac{F(s)}{s^2+4}$, I have to compute the convolution between $\cos{2t}$ and $\cfrac{1}{4+\cos{2t}}$, which is $$\int_0^t \frac{\sin(2t-2u)}{4+\cos(2u)}\,du$$ Now, I could use the fact that $\sin(a-b)=\sin a\cos b-\sin b\cos a$. For more information about the application of Laplace transform in engineering, see this Wikipedia article and this Wolfram article . Algebraic, Exponential, Logarithmic, Trigonometric, Inverse Trigonometric, Hyperbolic, and Inverse Hyperbolic Laplace Transform The First Shift Theorem The first shift theorem states that if L {f (t)} = F (s) then L {e at f (t)} = F (s - a) Therefore, the transform L {e at f (t)} is thus the same as L {f (t)} with s everywhere in the result replaced by (s - a) The purpose of the Laplace Transform is to transform ordinary differential equations into algebraic equations. Jul 10, 2020 · Syntax : laplace_transform(f, t, s) Return : Return the laplace transformation and convergence condition. We will use Laplace transforms to solve IVP’s that contain Heaviside (or step) functions. Now that we know how to find a Laplace transform, it is time to use it to solve differential equations. Using this terminology, the equation given above for the determinant of the 3 x 3 matrix A is equal to the sum of the products of the entries in the first row and their cofactors: This is called the Laplace expansion by the first row. 0237 and B = -5. If we let be 0 and rearrange the equation, The above is the transfer function that will be used in the Bode plot and can provide valuable information about the system. Conditions for Existence of Laplace Transform. A common situation is when f˜(s) is a polynomial in s, or more generally, a ratio of polynomials; then we use partial fractions to simplify the expressions. Here time-domain variable is t and S-domain variable is s. When transformed into the Laplace domain, differential equations become polynomials of s. I have read the manual. TiNspireApps. This will allow us to solve differential equations using Laplace Transforms. com. It converts a function of time, f(t), into a function of complex frequency. 1) L(f) = Z ∞ 0 e−stf(t)dt. Unilateral Laplace Transform Up: Laplace_Transform Previous: Higher Order Systems System Algebra and Block Diagram. }\) We can use the Sage command laplace. Laplace transform is a central feature of many courses and methodologies that build on the foundation provided by Engs 22. We denote Y(s) = L(y)(t) the Laplace transform Y(s) of y(t). 1: The Laplace transform as a metaphorical \machine. Inverse Laplace Transform. State Equations Complex Fourier transform is also called as Bilateral Laplace Transform. Using the definition of Laplace Transform in each case, the integration is reasonably straightforward: Solving PDEs using Laplace Transforms, Chapter 15 Given a function u(x;t) de ned for all t>0 and assumed to be bounded we can apply the Laplace transform in tconsidering xas a parameter. Laplace Transform Definition; 2a. We transform the equation from the t domain into the s domain. It can be shown that the Laplace transform of a causal signal is unique; hence, the inverse Laplace transform is uniquely defined as well. Laplace transform of: Variable of function: Transform variable: Calculate: Computing Get this widget. To understand the Laplace transform, use of the Laplace to solve differential equations, and The inverse Laplace transform of the function is calculated by using Mellin inverse formula: Where and . 1 Circuit Elements in the s Domain. The main advantage of using Laplace transforms is that the solution of the differential equations is reduced to algebraic Conseqently, Laplace transforms may be used to solve linear differential equations with constant coefficients as follows: Take Laplace transforms of both sides of equation using property above to express derivatives; Solve for F (s), Y (s), etc. They take three arguments - the item to be transformed, the original variable, and the transformed variable. The inverse Laplace transform of F(s), denoted L−1[F(s)], is the function f Use the convolution theorem to find inverse Laplace transform of F (s)= 1 s(s−4)2 F (s) = 1 s (s − 4) 2. (f) does not exist (infinite number of (finite) jumps), also not defined unless t is an integer. We begin with the definition: Laplace Transform 6. 1. The kinds of problems where the Laplace Transform is invaluable occur in electronics. The z-transform is a similar technique used in the discrete case. Dec 05, 2014 · Alternative notations for the Laplace transform of f(t) are L[f], F(), and fL(). Laplace Transform (inttrans Package) Introduction The laplace Let us first define the laplace transform: The invlaplace is a transform such that . Example 2: Find Laplace transform of Solution: Observe that 5t = e t log 5. Materials include course notes, practice problems with solutions, a problem solving video, and problem sets with solutions. humanities and science department. This topic identifies the key learning points of how to carry out circuit analysis using the Laplace transform, as well as the concept of the transfer function. LTI system means Linear and Time invariant system, according to the linear property as the input is zero then output also becomes zero. The Laplace transform describes signals and systems not as functions of time, but as functions of a complex variable s. The function f(t) has finite number of maxima and minima. f (t) = te-t + 2t cost 3. 7 The Transfer Function and the Steady-State Sinusoidal Response. 1: Verify Table 6. Usually, to find the Inverse Laplace Transform of a function, we use the property of linearity of the Laplace Transform. im/NcVLH. Without Laplace transforms solving these would involve quite a bit of work. Laplace transform is a powerful transformation tool, which literally transforms the original differential equation into an elementary algebraic expression. Laplace Transform of Array Inputs Find the Laplace transform of the matrix M. Recall the Laplace transform for f(t). To understand the Laplace transform, use of the Laplace to solve differential equations, and tions but it is also of considerable use in finding inverse Laplace transforms since, using the inverse formulation of the theorem of Key Point 8 we get: Key Point 9 Inverse Second Shift Theorem If L−1{F(s)} = f(t) then L−1{e−saF(s)} = f(t−a)u(t−a) Task Find the inverse Laplace transform of e−3s s2. It looks a little hairy. It is the easiest method to solve the differential equations. Property C If the Laplace transform of x(t) is rational then the ROC is the The Laplace transform is a well established mathematical technique for solving differential equations. The symbols ℱ and ℒ are identified in the standard as U+2131 SCRIPT CAPITAL F and U+2112 SCRIPT CAPITAL L, and in LaTeX, they can be produced using \mathcal{F} and \mathcal{L}. The Laplace transform is (1) X L (s) = 1 s + a Since a > 0, the ROC of X L (s) contains the imaginary axis, and the Fourier transform of x (t) is simply obtained by evaluating X L (s) on the imaginary axis s = j ω: (2) X F (ω) = X L (j ω) = 1 j ω + a Learn the Laplace Transform Table in Differential Equations and use these formulas to solve differential equation. We keep a huge amount of good quality reference information on matters varying from factoring trinomials to adding and subtracting rational expressions Laplace transform is the most commonly used transform in calculus to solve Differential equations. This property simply recognizes that the Laplace transform goes to infinity at a pole so the Laplace transform integral will not converge at that point and hence it cannot be in the ROC. Delay of a Transform L ebt f t f s b Results 5 and 6 assert that a delay in the function induces an exponential multiplier in the transform and, conversely, a delay in the transform is associated with an exponential multiplier for the function. The crucial idea is that operations of calculus on functions are replaced by operations of algebra on transforms. Find the Laplace transform of the matrix M. I found A = 5. See full list on dummies. If you want to compute the inverse Laplace transform of (8) 24 () + = ss F s, you can use the following command lines. Just determining the regular transform is a procedure, likewise, known as a unilateral Laplace transform. Proof of Laplace Transform of Derivatives $\displaystyle \mathcal{L} \left\{ f'(t) \right\} = \int_0^\infty e^{-st} f'(t) \, dt$ Using integration by parts, This section provides materials for a session on operations on the simple relation between the Laplace transform of a function and the Laplace transform of its derivative. It is “algorithmic” in that it follows a set process. Our online calculator, build on Wolfram Alpha system allows one to find the Laplace transform of almost any, even very complicated function. Solution: We can express this as four terms, including two complex terms (with A 3 =A 4 *) Cross-multiplying we get (using the fact that (s+1-2j)(s+1+2j)=(s 2 +2s+5)) Then equating like powers of s Inverse Laplace Transform Calculator. By applying Laplace’s transform we switch from a function of time to a function of a complex variable s (frequency) and the differential equation becomes an algebraic equation. How to find the Laplace transform of a periodic function ? First, find the Laplace transform of the window function . Table of Laplace Transformations; 3. Taking the Laplace transform of the differential equation we have: The Laplace transform of the LHS L[y''+4y'+5y] is LaPlace Transform in Circuit Analysis Recipe for Laplace transform circuit analysis: 1. au !Numeracy and Maths !Online Resources The convolution property of the Laplace transform �1(�)∗�2(�)↔�1(�)�2(�) is very important in the analysis of LTI systems, since it allows us to deal with the transformed zero-state response as the product of two rational functions �𝑧�(�)=�(�)�(�)as opposed to the convolution integral, �𝑧�(�)=�(�)∗ℎ(�). mechanical system, How to use Laplace Transform in nuclear physics as well as Automation engineering, Control engineering and Signal processing. The key feature of the Laplace transform that makes it a tool for solving differential equations is that the Laplace transform of the derivative of a function is an algebraic expression rather than a differential expression. , grows without a bound when , the intersection of the two ROCs is a empty set, the Laplace transform does not exist. We use the letter s to denote complex frequency, and thus f(t) becomes F(s) after we apply the Laplace transform. Take inverse Laplace transform to attain ultimate solution of equation Nov 16, 2009 · For this we need the inverse Laplace transform of our H(s). 2, the Fourier transform of function f is denoted by ℱ f and the Laplace transform by ℒ f. using variation of parameters. 1 Introduction and Definition In this section we introduce the notion of the Laplace transform. For a signal f(t), computing the Laplace transform (laplace) and then the inverse Laplace transform (ilaplace) of the result may not return the original signal for t < 0. Advantages of using Laplace Transforms to Solve IVPs It converts an IVP into an algebraic process in which the solution of the equation is the solution of the IVP. f (t) = 3 cos (6t) e. First use partial fraction expansion, or your fancy calculator, to expand the transfer function. Inverse Laplace Transform Calculator is online tool to find inverse Laplace Transform of a given function F(s). com and uncover algebra course, logarithmic functions and a number of other math topics transformation of a function f(t) from the time domain into the complex frequency domain, F(s). The Laplace transform is a method of solving ODEs and initial value problems. The steps to using the Laplace and inverse Laplace transform with an initial value are as follows: 1) We need to know the transformations we have to apply, which are: Aug 01, 2020 · Computer algebra systems have now replaced tables of Laplace transforms just as the calculator has replaced the slide rule. Use some algebra to solve for the Laplace of the system component of interest. Example 1: Find the Laplace transform of the given function: f(t) = t 3 – 7e 4t Given function:t 3 – 7e 4t In order to find the Laplace transform for this function, we use the Standard Laplace Laplace Transform Calculator The above calculator is an online tool which shows output for the given input. The Laplace Transform can be used to solve differential equations using a four step process. Given The Laplace Transform in Circuit Analysis. Jun 17, 2017 · The Laplace transform is an integral transform that is widely used to solve linear differential equations with constant coefficients. Laplace transforms can be computed using a table and the linearity property, “Given f(t) and g(t) then, L\left\{af(t)+bg(t)\right\}=aF(s)+bG(s). Final value theorem and initial value theorem are together called the Limiting Theorems. transfer function and impulse response are only used in LTI systems. The Laplace transform provides us with a complex function of a complex variable. Hello, Is there a way to put the below equasion on the calculator to get the Laplace transfor. no hint Solution. math. This is the Laplace transform of the unit box function. c is the breakpoint. Inverse of the Laplace Transform; 8. Without any loss of meaning, we can use talk about finding the potential inside a sphere rather than the temperature inside a sphere. " Consider the Laplace transform: Some manipulations must be done before Y(s) can be inverted since it does not appear directly in our table of Laplace transforms. Solve Differential Equations Using Laplace Transform. We would like the script L, which is unicode character 0x2112 and can be found under the Lucida Sans Unicode font, but it can't be accessed from the equation editor. The best way to convert differential equations into algebraic equations is the use of Laplace transformation Inverse Laplace Transform Online Calculator. Deflnition: Given a function f(t), t ‚ 0, its Laplace transform F(s) = Lff(t)g is deflned as F(s) = Lff(t)g: = Z 1 0 e¡stf(t)dt = lim: A!1 Z A 0 e¡stf(t)dt We say the transform converges if the limit exists, and 6. f (t) = t cos (3) g. Inverse Laplace transforms work very much the same as the forward transform. Specify the independent and transformation variables for each matrix entry by using matrices of the same size. Pan 6 12. Laplace transforms are fairly simple and straightforward. Equations 1 and 4 represent Laplace and Inverse Laplace Transform of a signal x(t). Again, we are using the bare bone definition of the Laplace transform in order to find the question to our answer: Then, is nothing but or, short: and. This is denoted by L(f)=F L−1(F)=f. The Laplace transform of a function is defined to be . As you launch this software, it provides you two options: New quick conversion and Create New Conversion. The integral is computed using numerical methods if the third argument, s, is given a numerical value. Overview of the Transform of a Derivative and Steps for using Laplace Transforms to Solve ODEs; Example #1 – use Laplace transform calculator show solved: use transforms methods the complex analysis made easy step. 24 illustrates that inverse Laplace transforms are not unique. Use Laplace transform table to find the Laplace transform of the following time functions: a. Then, use the formula: F(s) f (t) FT (s) fT What does the Laplace transform do, really? At a high level, Laplace transform is an integral transform mostly encountered in differential equations — in electrical engineering for instance — where electric circuits are represented as differential equations. All of the these have complex roots Using the Laplace transform nd the solution for the following equation @ @t y(t) = 3 2t with initial conditions y(0) = 0 Dy(0) = 0 Hint. The only difference is that the order of variables is reversed. This is because we utilize one side of the Laplace transform (the typical side). sardar patel college of engineering,bakrol 2. By using the above Laplace transform calculator, we convert a function f (t) from the time domain, to a function F (s) of the complex variable s. However, it can be shown that, if several functions have the same Laplace transform, then at most one of them is continuous. A final property of the Laplace transform asserts that 7. The forward and inverse Laplace transform commands are simply laplace and invlaplace. Convolution Theorem of Laplace transform: The convolution theorem is helpful in determining May 02, 2017 · Laplace Transform Information using TI89’s Differential Equations Made Easy. Example #1 : In this example, we can see that by using laplace_transform() method, we are able to compute the laplace transformation and return the transformation and convergence condition. Laplace Transform It’s time to stop guessing solutions andfind a systematic way offinding solutions to non homogeneous linear ODEs. It is named in honor of the great French mathematician, Pierre Simon De Laplace (1749-1827). Laplace transforms applied to the tvariable (change to s) and the PDE simpli es to an ODE in the xvariable. ” The statement means that after you’ve taken the transform of the individual functions, then you can add back any constants and add or subtract the results. 8. From the table, we see that the inverse of 1/(s-2) is exp(2t) and that inverse of 1/(s-3) is exp(3t). B Tables of Fourier Series and Transform of Basis Signals 325 Table B. Recall that the Laplace transform of a function is F (s) = L (f (t)) = ∫ 0 ∞ e − s t f (t) d t. Laplace Transforms - vCalc Processing Laplace Transforms to Solve BVPs for PDEs Laplace transforms can be used solve linear PDEs. It is similar to the use of logarithms to multiple or divide numbers. And it's minus because this is minus. The syntax is as follows: LaplaceTransform [ expression , original variable , transformed variable ] Inverse Laplace Transforms. 8 The Impulse Function in Circuit Analysis EE 230 Laplace circuits – 5 Now, with the approach of transforming the circuit into the frequency domain using impedances, the Laplace procedure becomes: 1. Integro-Differential Equations and Systems of DEs; 10 In mathematics, the Laplace transform, named after its inventor Pierre-Simon Laplace (/ ləˈplɑːs /), is an integral transform that converts a function of a real variable {\displaystyle t} (often time) to a function of a complex variable {\displaystyle s} (complex frequency). Some understanding of the LAPLACE TRANSFORMS 5. edu Laplace transform is named in honour of the great French mathematician, Pierre Simon De Laplace (1749-1827). I am not typing in "laplace" I am using the toolbox -> Calculus-> Transform->Laplace. laplace transformation of f(t). The Laplace May 20, 2015 · The inverse Laplace transform does exactly the opposite, it takes a function whose domain is in complex frequency and gives a function defined in the time domain. , decays when , the intersection of the two ROCs is , and we have: However, if , i. 3) Apply the Inverse Laplace Transform to the solution of 2. )tn−1 (n−1)!e −αtu(t), Reα>0 1 (α+jω)n Apr 17, 2007 · For the best answers, search on this site https://shorturl. e. Laplace transforms from time to Laplace domain. Build your own widget Aug 04, 2017 · Laplace Transform of the Dirac Delta Function using the TiNspire Calculator To find the Laplace Transform of the Dirac Delta Function just select the menu option in Differential Equations Made Easy from www. Derivation in the time domain is transformed to multiplication by s in the s-domain. Using the If L [f = F(s), then L-l [F = f (t), wherc L-l is called the Inverse Laplace Transform operator. 1 Definition of the Laplace Transform [ ] 1 1 1 ()()1 2 Look-up table ,an easier way for circuit application ()() j st j LFsftFseds j ftFs − + − == ⇔ ∫sw psw One-sided (unilateral) Laplace transform Two-sided (bilateral) Laplace 3 Finding inverse transforms using partial frac-tions Given a function f, of t, we denote its Laplace Transform by L[f] = f˜; the inverse process is written: L−1[f˜] = f. To easily calculate inverse Laplace transform, choose New Quick conversion option and enter the expression in the specified inversion filed. \(\) The one precaution is that the Fourier Transform is often given as a bilateral function (t extending from $-\infty$ to $\infty$) so to be truly equivelent unless the function is declared to be causal, we must be using the bilateral Laplace Transform for the two to be exactly identical (which is also seldom used). $$ Now the impolite way is to invoke a famous theorem Aug 26, 2017 · The main idea behind the Laplace Transformation is that we can solve an equation (or system of equations) containing differential and integral terms by transforming the equation in " t -space" to one in " s -space". I am using this formula, e to the minus as times the Laplace transform of the unit step function, which is one over s. com Inverse Laplace Transform Calculator The calculator will find the Inverse Laplace Transform of the given function. It can also be shown that the determinant is equal to the Laplace expansion by the second row, The Laplace Transform 4. Overview of the Transform of a Derivative and Steps for using Laplace Transforms to Solve ODEs; Example #1 – use Solving PDEs using Laplace Transforms, Chapter 15 Given a function u(x;t) de ned for all t>0 and assumed to be bounded we can apply the Laplace transform in tconsidering xas a parameter. Solve the circuit using any (or all) of the standard circuit analysis Feb 08, 2012 · Laplace Transforms. Get result from Laplace Transform tables. The Laplace transform of f(t), written F(s), is given by (4. BYJU’S online Laplace transform calculator tool makes the calculations faster and the integral change is displayed in a fraction of seconds. First let us try to find the Laplace transform of a function that is a derivative. ], in the place holder type Sep 27, 2010 · Laplace Transform. Plugging in x(0) = x′(0) = 0we get s2X(s)− 6sX(s)+8X(s) = (s2−6s+8)X(s) = (s−4)(s− 2)X(s). for the other direction. Proof of Laplace Transform of Derivatives $\displaystyle \mathcal{L} \left\{ f'(t) \right\} = \int_0^\infty e^{-st} f'(t) \, dt$ Using integration by parts, Use the Laplace Transform Use standard tables to transform to Laplace form and also use the inverse Laplace Transform Solve differential equations using Laplace 4 1. Definition of Laplace Transformation: Let be a given function defined for all, then the Laplace Transformation of is defined as Here, is called Laplace Transform Operator. 8 May 22, 2019 · The Laplace Transform is a powerful tool that is very useful in Electrical Engineering. Question: Use the Laplace transform to solve the following damped vibrating system that experiences a constant force: Dec 18, 2020 · Laplace Transform is a strategy for resolving differential equations. (d) the Laplace Transform does not exist (singular at t = 0). We can use the Laplace transform to nd v(t). 0237 Now we can take the inverse transform. The calculator will find the Laplace Transform of the given function. Recall, that L − 1 (F (s)) is such a function f (t) that L (f (t)) = F (s). Usually, the only difficulty in finding the inverse Laplace transform to these systems is in matching coefficients and scaling the transfer function to match the Using Laplace Transforms to Solve Linear Differential Equations Partial Differential Equations The Laplace transform, which are very useful for solving differential equations is defined as: where f and t are the symbolic variables, f the function, t the time variable. Try the free Mathway calculator and problem solver below to practice various math topics. One of the main advantages in using Laplace transform to solve differential equations is that the Laplace transform converts a differential equation into an algebraic equation. . Laplace transforms including computations,tables are presented with examples and solutions. Example #9 – find the given inverse Laplace Transform using Completing the Square; Example #10 – find the given inverse Laplace Transform using Partial Fractions; Initial Value Problems with Laplace Transforms. If I type purge(s,t) the calculator returns ["no such variable s" "no such variable t"]. 1 hr 3 Examples. H. The transfer function defines the relation between the output and the input of a dynamic system, written in complex form (s variable). 25. 2. So the Laplace Transform of sine of 2t. Examples of how to use Laplace transform to solve ordinary differential equations (ODE) are presented. The transfer function defines the relation between the output and the input of a dynamic system, written in complex form ( s variable). This prompts us to make the following definition. What are the applications of the Laplace Transform? Laplace Transforms - vCalc Processing Laplace Transform Online Calculator. View all Online Tools Laplace transforms can be computed using a table and the linearity property, “Given f(t) and g(t) then, L\left\{af(t)+bg(t)\right\}=aF(s)+bG(s). It reduces the problem of solving differential equations into algebraic equations. laplace transform using calculator
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Connecticut gun rights group fundraiser draws crowd
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CCDL.us: Connecticut gun rights group fundraiser draws crowd.
WOODBRIDGE >> The roar of motorcycles covering the parking lot of the Woodbridge Firearms Trading Post at 28 Selden St. Saturday morning filled the air.
Music, long lines for registration, leather jackets, raffle tickets and crowds of supporters of gun rights and protecting the Second Amendment could be seen as people arrived for the <URL destination=”http://www.ccdl.us/%20″>Connecticut Citizens Defense League<PARAGRAPH style=”TX Body”>,
The event was to raise funds for litigation the CCDL filed in May against the state to overturn Public Act 13-3, which enforces tough new gun laws. The legislation was passed in April in the wake of the Dec. 14, 2012, shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown.
“I am supporting them (CCDL) as much as possible because this is my livelihood, and being a permit holder, we need to fight for our rights, if you will,” Mike Majewski, owner of Woodbridge Firearms Trading Post said of the fundraiser.
Saturday morning, 281 riders and passengers showed up to partake in the ride that began in Woodbridge, stopped off at Bozzuto’s in Cheshire and the Moose Lodge in Wallingford and finished in Southington at King 33, where 100 more people showed up to support the fundraiser.
“This is an important opportunity for our organization to do things that need to be done to ensure our rights are protected,” said CCDL President Scott Wilson. “We are law abiding citizens and we are exercising our rights.”
Each rider was charged $20 and each passenger was charged $15.
“We hope that this puts a significant amount of money in our coffers to be used for the litigation,” Wilson said. He would not share how much money they expected to raise or how much money might still be needed to fund the litigation.
Throughout the event, riders and passengers picked up poker cards at each stop, and the person with the highest hand when the ride was over won the grand prize, which Wilson said is a custom Springer motorcycle.
Over the past three months, Bob Ferguson, fundraising coordinator for CCDL, has been planning the poker ride and selling raffle tickets. The raffle was drawn at King 33, with prizes including a leather jacket and various firearms.
Wilson said this was the seventh fundraiser the group has held so far for the litigation.
“We have made tremendous strides in fundraising efforts,” Wilson said. “We are not where we need to be yet. It is a continuous process so that the top attorneys we have on board will be able to leave no stone unturned.”
Wilson said there has been no court setting yet, projects a hearing sometime mid-December.
Perry Price, a member of CCDL who just joined this year, said he was supporting Saturday’s fundraiser because he supports the Second Amendment.
Price said that when he was working in Germany for 30 years, he spent five of those years working behind the Iron Curtain, where he got to know the people of East Berlin.
“The people in East Berlin would talk to me on the street and they would say, ‘No matter what, do not give up your right to bear arms. We did and we are now crushed by the communist government,’” Price said.
Bobby Preston of New Haven, who came to the ride after just hearing about it Friday, said he came to ride because he fully supports the CCDL lawsuit.
“The laws are hurting law abiding citizens who own guns,” Preston said.
Romano Ratti, another New Haven resident, said he came out to show support for CCDL’s fight against “these ridiculous laws.”
“What we should be doing is looking at the psychological issues of the people with the guns,” Ratti said. “It is not the gun that killed the person but the person behind the gun. We should have strict psychological testing before people are given permits.”
Ferguson said they had no intention of canceling the event after the shooting Monday at the Washington Naval Yard.
“When mentally disturbed people do heinous things, people lash out at guns. We never considered canceling,” Ferguson said. “The shootings at the Naval yard and in Newtown were much more about mental illness than firearms. People have an incorrect response.”
Price said the CCDL is a peaceful organization and members are non-confrontational.
“If the state doesn’t enforce the laws they have, why do they keep making new laws that hurt legal citizens who get background checks to get a permit to protect themselves and their families?” Majewski said. “We just want everybody to come and have a good time.”
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Scientist Profile
Alvin R. Caparanga
Environmental Engineer, Outstanding young Scientist (2010)
Expertise: Polymer recycling, Freeze concentration for environmental application, Chemical Thermodynamics/, Siosorption, Engineering
Dr. Alvin r. caparanga is recognized of his outstanding scientific research in environmental engineering, particularly on the physical and thermodynamic properties of new or alternative solvent systems (i.e., solvent systems for CO2 and/or H2S capture), which have been reported in international peer-reviewed journals and which have contributed to the data bank of properties. Knowledge of these properties is indispensible in the design of processes and equipment systems, including such applications as CO2 absorption during its capture and sequestration. Moreover, such solvent systems have been demonstrated to improve absorption rate and efficiency and to lower energy requirement during solvent regeneration.
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School of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry Mapua Institute of Technology Intramuros, Manila, Subj. Chair, Chemical Engineering, 2003 Ap - 2008 S
Thermodynamics Laboratory Department of Chemical Engineering, Chung Yuan Christian University, Post-doctoral Research Associate, 2008 S - 2009 Ag
School of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, Mapua Institute of Technology Intramuros, Manila, Research Coordinator / Research Head, 2000 Ap - 2003 Mr
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Equilibrium solubility of carbon dioxide in 2-amino-2-methyl-l-propanol:+ piperazine + water [Completed]
Diffusion coefficients of aqueous ionic liquids from electrolytic conductivity data [Completed]
Sorption og Cr(IV on Sargassum ilicifolium-chitosan admix [Completed]
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Chemical Engineering at the Forefront of Global Challenge, Regional Symp. on Chemical Engineering, Manila Hotel, Manila, Philippines
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Mapua Institute of Technology, Intramuros, Manila, Philippines, Doctor of Philosophy in Environmental Engineering, 2008
University of the Philippine Diliman, Quezon City, Master of Science and Chemical Engineering, 1996 Ap
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Cheng, M.-D., Caparanga, A.R., Soriano, A.N., M.-H. Li, M.-H., (In Press) Solubility of COZ in the solvent system (water + monoethanolamine + triethanolamine)
The Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics, Corrected Proof, Available online 9 September 2009 (DOI:.10:1016/j jct.2009.09.005).
Chen, Y.-R., Caparanga, A.R., Soriano, A.N., Li, M.-H., (In Press) Liquid heat capacity of the solvent system (piperazine + 2-amino-2-methyl-propanol + water)
The Journal of Chemical Thetmodynamics, Corrected Proof, Available online 13 November 2009 (DOI:, IO.1016/j jct.2009.11:006)
Caparanga, A.R., Rodriguez, B.I.,Jr., Aguilar, F.M., (2007 S) The effects of Na' and nonionic surfactant on the biosorption of lead (II) using Sargassum ilicifolium
Research Journal of Chemistry and Environment Volume 11, No. 3
Bathan, R.S., Dagbay, K.B., Caparanga, A.R., (2008 O) Bioconversion of water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) at its optimum age into bioethanol via separate hydrolysis and fermentation
Philippine Institute of Chemical Engineers Journal Volume 11, No. 1
Wang, M.-H., Soriano, A.N., Caparanga, A.R., Li, M.-H., (2009) Mutual diffusion coefficients of aqueous solutions of some glycols
Fluid Phase Equilibria Volume 285, No. 1-2
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Lagumbay, L.J.L.I., Agapito, A.M., Caparanga, A.R., Soriano, A.N., Li, M.-H., (2009 O) Diffusion coefficients of aqueous ionic liquids from electrolytic conductivity data
Fluid Phase Equilibria
Yang, Z-Y., Soriano, A.N., Caparanga, A.R., Li, M.-H., (2009 Ag) Equilibrium solubility of carbon dioxide in 2-amino-2-methyl-l-propanol:+ piperazine + water
The Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics
Huang, Y.-M., Soriano, A.N., Caparanga, A.R., Li, M.-H., (2009 Ag) Kinetics of absorption of carbon dioxide in AMP + MDEA + water
Chemical Engineering Science
Berdan, H.F., Caparanga, A.R., Dagbay, K.B., () Sorption of Cr(IV) on Sargassum ilicifolium - chitosan admix
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Agapito, A.M., Lagumbay, L.J.L.I., Caparanga, A.R., Li, M.-H., (2009 Je) A simple approach to predict molar heat capacity of ionic liquid s using group additivity analysis
Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers
Lavapie, C.R.N., Anog, E.S., Caparanga, A.R.,, (2008 O) An enthalpy-concentration diagram for freeze-concentration of coconut water
Cheng, Y.-C., Hsu, C.H., Lan, K.H., Munoz, J.C., Caparanga, A.R., (2009 N) Desmearing of FR4 epoxy resin using NMP-based sweller
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Council member Jim Goodman returned "home" to St. Marys after many years of service in health care administration. He is a 1965 graduate of Camden County High School. He attended Brewton Parker College on a voice and music scholarship and subsequently graduated with an Associate in Arts Degree. He graduated from Georgia State College and University in Milledgeville with a B.A. in Psychology while working full time at Central State Hospital. After working in the juvenile court system for a number of years, he transitioned into health care administration. He graduated from the Charter Medical Corp. Internship Program in Nursing Home Administration and was licensed as a Georgia NHA in 1974. He later attained NHA and Assisted Living licensure in Tennessee.
Jim has served as administrator and executive director in county-owned, as well as private-sector hospitals where he learned the value of being a fiscal conservative and maintaining a focus on quality outcomes. He served as a consultant to facilities seeking accreditation by the JCAHO. He also was retained by the State of Georgia to serve in facilities which had been sanctioned by the state for life-safety and patient-jeopardy violations.
Arising out of his training in fire safety in the health care setting, Jim undertook training as a Mandate 101 Certified Firefighter, as well as EMT Basic Training. He served as a volunteer fire captain and was a founding member of the Southeast District Fire Station in Ware County. He served on the Region IX Emergency Medical Services Board, the Savannah Regional Hospital Advisory Board and conducted life-safety training in healthcare facilities throughout Southeast Georgia. He also served as Deputy Coroner and acting county coroner for a number of years.
As a Special Needs Consultant for the Florida Department of Health, Jim served as a disaster team leader for Disaster Medical Assistance Teams in several hurricane deployments. He received the "Helping Hands Award" for his role in the response to Hurricane Katrina. He also served on the Department of Homeland Security Region IV Disaster Mortuary Assistance Team, and the Joint Terroism Task Force for Central Florida.
Jim is married to Fran and he has two children by a previous marriage. His son, Rick is National Accounts Manager for IBM and resides in Bristow, VA. His daughter, Paige, is Public Affairs and Special Events Director for the Ware County School Board.
Jim invites open and honest dialogue with all citizens and looks forward to working to ensure value received for the taxpayers as the needs of the city are given priority over unnecessary spending.
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Saturday, January 04 2014 20:59
The Rock Father 2014 Fitness Challenge: Rock Father VS. Rock Father!
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On January 1st, two "Rock Fathers" began a challenge that will take them through 2014, and if all goes as planned, well beyond. This is a challenge based around not just "weight loss," but fitness... a path to overdue personal transformation and lifestyle change not just for themselves, but for their wives and daughters. Without professional trainers or guidance, this will be a year-long blog series that captures the journey of James Zahn (The Rock Father) and Tom George (FiXT Publicity) with weekly updates about their quest to get fit. There will be experimentation with trial-and-error as each man settles into the plan that works for them. With their journey now just four days-in, let's look at the starting stats...
Pictured: James Zahn and Family at the 2013 WTTW Fun and Run 3K
Quick Bio: The Rock Father. The guy who runs this site, James is a Work-at-Home Dad that spends his days having adventures with his daughters, while continuing to build upon his personal brand and creative endeavors.
Children: Adalyn and Finley, aka "The Rock Daughters"
Goal: Lose roughly 130 pounds, or reach a target weight of 200 pounds... that's less than I weighed when I graduated High School in 1994.
Reason for Doing This: "It's time. After defeating my first major challenge by quitting smoking nearly three years ago, my weight - something I've struggled with for nearly my entire life - has gotten out of control. I want to slim down, build my muscle back up, and regain my energy so that I can have adventures with my daughters for many years to come (and look great while doing it). I once applied for NBC's THE BIGGEST LOSER, and now it's time to do this myself."
Starting Weight: 328.4
Methods of Madness:
Tracking Using the MyFitnessPal App for Windows Phone
Maintain Daily Caloric Intake of 2080
Healthy Eating with focus on fruits and veggies
At-Home Workout (routine being finalized)
Possible Juice Fast [Note: I sorta had a plan, but catching Joe Cross' FAT, SICK AND NEARLY DEAD on Amazon, I'm considering a "reboot" by juicing]
Pictured: Tom George and Midgie Fu
Quick Bio: The Public Relations Manager at FiXT Publicity, Tom spends his days as a Work-at-Home Dad, working with emerging and national touring artists. In his free time, he is a self-proclaimed "pop culture nerd" that has a love for music, horror movies, pro wrestling, fantasy football, and pretty much anything 80s. He graduated from Music Tech in Minneapolis for guitar performance, and has played in various rock and metal bands through the years.
Children: Colette aka "Midgie Fu"
Goal: To lose a minimum of 100 pounds this year. Hopefully much more.
Reason for Doing This:"I let the office job get the best of me over the past few years. I put on a huge amount of weight, and it is starting to effect my health. I want to feel better, live longer, and especially be more mobile so I'm able to spend more time with Colette doing things she enjoys (and keep up with her)!"
Tracking Using SparkPeople.
Cardio Workout 4-5 Days a Week at Home (starting mainly with stairs)
Maintaining Daily Caloric Intake of 2600
Trial and Error with a goal of losing 4 pounds per week.
While this challenge is presented as a "vs.," the purpose is so that both James and Tom will not be going it alone, but using each other for support - and all of you to observe or play along at home!
Published in Health & Fitness
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Pavani Gangireddy is an Indian film actress, model and fashion blogger. She is known for her works in Telugu film industry. She made her first on-screen appearence with a short film 'VindhyaMarutham'. Later, she debuted in tollywood with the romantic film 'Malli Malli Idi Rani Roju'. Since then Pavani was seen in many films like Size Zero, Brahmotsavam and Right Right. She will be seen in an upcoming film '9-TheMovie'.
Pavani Gangireddy was born on 20 August 1987 in India. Before entering into entertainment indusrty, she worked as a Software Engineer (team leader) at Infosys. She never thought of acting in movies. She was approached for Malli Malli Idi Rani Roju Movie by Kranthi Madhav's team and she agreed to act in the film only after she heard that Sharwanand and Nithya were going to play the lead roles. Pavani played the role of Nithya's friend Jyoti in the movie.
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Date of birth : 20 August 1987
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Education : Software Engineer
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Slice of life: Team work makes the dream work
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For the past seven years I have played touch rugby, it was a spur of the moment decision that looked like fun and gave me something to do after school. I didn’t know the sport would lead me on a long but rewarding journey.
Three years ago, I was selected to play for the Gauteng Ladies side, an experience that has taught me more in that short space of time than my 12 years inside a classroom.
Our coach, Steven Knoesen, demands perfection in every aspect of the game, for defense to be as tough as the attack, and for us to memorise every move but to improvise when needed. The past three years under his watch have broken and subsequently moulded me as a player. Three years ago, I was an average player that sailed through most games on natural ability, a bit of pace and a lot of heart. However, when you’re coming up against the best touch rugby players in the country you’ll need a lot more than heart and pace to beat them.
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The feeling of finally succeeding after years of tireless work is indescribable. Success is built on a foundation of hard-work, heart and the pure drive to achieve regardless of the circumstances. In anything that you attempt in life, you will always be more successful if you work hard and give it your all.
There is no ‘I’ in touch rugby. I have learned that it takes six people to score a try and it takes the same to defend against one. There are moments when individuality is important but nine times out of ten, a team will be better. You need a team, whether on a sports field or in a newsroom. A team that will go again and again until they succeed. Team work is an interesting concept in the fact that everyone must work just as hard the person next to them, you will only truly succeed if there is no weak link.
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Peaky Blinders Actor Launches British Superhero Series THE FEW on 2nd February on YouTube.
The world’s first online British superhero series created by Peaky Blinders actor, BBC award winner Sam Benjamin, and visionary director newcomer Sam Bradford, has arrived.
The show features action crafted by Sonny Louis (Game of Thrones, Batman Begins). The cast includes Peaky Blinder’sown Sam Benjamin, Coronation Street star Kim Vithana, and The Royals actress Jacqui-Lee Pryce.
LONDON--Jan. 27, 2017— Production house Praxima announced today that its original sci-fi superhero series, The Few, is set to premiere on YouTube and Facebook on February 2nd 9pm GMT. A thrilling sci-fi drama, the new series is created by BBC Films Channel 4 Award Winning Writer and actor Sam Benjamin (Peaky Blinders, Stan Lee’s Lucky Man, Fresh Meat), and emerging director Sam Bradford (Will.I.Am’s Lexus Commercial). It is presented by the visionary new production company Praxima who recently produced for superstar girl band Little Mix.
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A married Irishman went into the confessional and said to his priest, ‘I almost had an affair with another woman.’
The priest said, ‘What do you mean, almost?’
The Irishman said, ‘Well, we got undressed and rubbed together, but then I stopped.’
The priest said, ‘Rubbing together is the same as putting it in. You’re not to see that woman again. For your penance, say five Hail Mary ‘s and put $50 in the poor box.’
The Irishman left the confessional, said his prayers, and then walked over to the poor box.
He paused for a moment and then started to leave.
The priest, who was watching, quickly ran over to him saying, ‘I saw that. You didn’t put any money in the poor box!’
The Irishman replied, ‘Yeah, but I rubbed the $50 on the box, and according to you, that’s the same as putting it in!’
Lemon Squeeze
There once was a religious young woman who went to Confession. Upon entering the confessional, she said, ‘Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned.’
The priest said, ‘Confess your sins and be forgiven.’
The young woman said, ‘Last night my boyfriend made mad passionate love to me seven times.’
The priest thought long and hard and then said, ‘Squeeze seven lemons into a glass and then drink the juice.’
The young woman asked, ‘Will this cleanse me of my sins?’
The priest said, ‘No, but it will wipe that smile off of your face.’
Catholic Dog
Muldoon lived alone in the Irish countryside with only a pet dog for company. One day the dog died, and Muldoon went to the parish priest and asked, ‘Father, my dog is dead. Could ya’ be saying’ a mass for the poor creature?’
Father Patrick replied, ‘I’m afraid not; we cannot have services for an animal in the church. But there are some Baptists down the lane, and there’s no tellin’ what they believe. Maybe they’ll do something for the creature.’
Muldoon said, ‘I’ll go right away Father. Do ya’ think $5,000 is enough to donate to them for the service?’
Father Patrick exclaimed, ‘Sweet Mary , Mother of Jesus! Why didn’t ya tell me the dog was Catholic?
Father O’Malley answers the phone. ‘Hello, is this Father O’Malley?’
‘It is!’
‘This is the IRS. Can you help us?’
‘I can!’
‘Do you know a Ted Houlihan?’
‘I do!’
‘Is he a member of your congregation?’
‘He is!’
‘Did he donate $10,000 to the church?’
‘He will.’
An elderly man walks into a confessional. The following conversation ensues:
Man: ‘I am 92 years old, have a wonderful wife of 70 years, many children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren. Yesterday, I picked up two college girls, hitch-hiking. We went to a motel, where I had sex with each of them three times.’
Priest: ‘Are you sorry for your sins?’
Man: ‘What sins?’
Priest: ‘What kind of a Catholic are you?’
Man: ‘I’m Jewish.’
Priest: ‘Why are you telling me all this?’
Man: ‘I’m 92 years old .... I’m telling everybody!’
Brothel Trip
An elderly man goes into a brothel and tells the madam he would like a young girl for the night. Surprised, she looks at the ancient man and asks how old he is.
‘I’m 90 years old,’ he says.
’90?’ replies the woman. ‘Don’t you realize you’ve had it?’
‘Oh, sorry,’ says the old man. ‘How much do I owe you?’
A woman was having a passionate affair with an Irish inspector from a pest-control company. One afternoon they were carrying on in the bedroom together when her husband arrived home unexpectedly.
‘Quick,’ said the woman to the lover, ‘into the closet!’ and she pushed him in the closet, stark naked.
The husband, however, became suspicious and after a search of the bedroom discovered the man in the closet.’Who are you?’ he asked him.
‘I’m an inspector from Bugs-B-Gone,’ said the exterminator.
‘What are you doing in there?’ the husband asked.
‘I’m investigating a complaint about an infestation of moths,’ the man replied.
‘And where are your clothes?’ asked the husband.
The man looked down at himself and said, ‘Those little bastards! ‘
Marriage Humor
Wife: ‘What are you doing?’
Husband: Nothing.
Wife: ‘Nothing…? You’ve been reading our marriagecertificate for an hour.’
Husband: ‘I was looking for the expiration date.’
Wife : ‘Do you want dinner?’
Husband: ‘Sure! What are my choices?’
Wife: ‘Yes or no.’
Girl: ‘When we get married, I want to share all your worries, troubles and lighten your burden.’
Boy: ‘It’s very kind of you, darling, but I don’t have any worries or troubles.’
Girl: ‘Well that’s because we aren’t married yet.’
Son: ‘Mum, when I was on the bus with Dad this morning, he told me to give up my seat to a lady.’
Mom: ‘Well, you have done the right thing.’
Son: ‘But mum, I was sitting on daddy’s lap.’
A newly married man asked his wife, ‘Would you have married me if my father hadn’t left me a fortune?’
‘Honey,’ the woman replied sweetly, ‘I’d have married you, NO MATTER WHO LEFT YOU A FORTUNE!’
A wife asked her husband: ‘What do you like most in me, my pretty face or my sexy body?’
He looked at her from head to toe and replied: ‘I like your sense of humor!’
Husbands are husbands
A man was sitting reading his papers when his wife hit him round the head with a frying pan.
‘What was that for?’ the man asked.
The wife replied, ‘That was for the piece of paper with the name Jenny on it that I found in your pants pocket’.
The man then said ‘When I was at the races last week, Jenny was the name of the horse I bet on.‘
The wife apologized and went on with the housework. Three days later the man is watching TV when his wife bashes him on the head with an even bigger frying pan, knocking him unconscious.
Upon re-gaining consciousness the man asked why she had hit again.
Wife replied. ‘Your horse phoned’
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Player Evening - Gary Madine and Ben Alnwick
Over 60 Lancaster Whites attended the Function Room at The Boot and Shoe to give a warm Lancaster welcome to to the 2 players who had braved their way up the accident strewn M6 to visit. #
The players were very ably introduced by two of our new crop of youngsters, Isabelle and Hughie and then the players answered various questions from the assembled supporters, showing humour, honesty and insight into their lives and the club. The mid session break gave a chance for all the individual photos and signings before a few more questions and the final group photograph was taken.
All too soon we were saying goodbye to them, complete with presentations from Kay Hopkins and Joshua. After drawing the Lifeline and Raffle for the night, congratulations to the winners, it was time for the final chats and goodbyes of the membership after another enjoyable event.
This short report would not be complete without the club expressing it's most heartfelt thanks to the club for this opportunity, the players for attending and lastly, but definitely not leastly, to the young lady from the club who organised this and accompanied the players on a dark autumn night to north Lancashire.
Formal Dinner 2015
An interesting change to the normal date for this event allowed the membership to take in the stunning views and sunset over Morecambe Bay, rather than just looking at the spread of street lights below us. The Gateway house at the University of Cumbria again playing host to a well washed and attired Lancaster Whites membership. As usual, the food, drink and service afforded by the venue was excellent.
For the first time in a while our guest of honour was the BWFC Manager himself, ably assisted by the BWFC Communications office. Neil Lennon showed himself to be very approachable, handling the duties of toasts, a Question and Answer session, the photo call and drawing of the Raffle amiably and honestly. The Committee would like to thank him once more for making his way up the M6 to be with us, during what must be a busy pre-season.
Special mention must be made to those who helped put on the event and those who played their part during the evening, Steve Horrocks, John Powell, Bob Anderson, Jon Holden, Becky Holden, Mark Salkeld and Bill Jay are names that leap to mind for thanks in this respect.
A photo of the motley crew that attended can be found on the Official BWFC Twitter and Website.
Player Evening - Stuart Holden
A crowd of over 80 eagerly awaited Stuart's arrival at The Bowling Green. It soon became obvious that the evening was to be all that they hoped for.
Stuart was welcomed to the venue by George Richmond, who handled his duties with all the aplomb we have come to expect from someone with his now considerable experience! Then to the main event and Stuart proved to be a witty and humorous speaker, handling the vast variety of questions posed to him with ease.
The same qualities were proved again as he adroitly accommodated all the requests for autographs and photographs during the break, before helping with the various club raffles and draws. A few more questions and it was soon time to make our reluctant goodbyes and thank yous. The club committee decided to present Stuart with the evening's raffle takings, as a donation to his Holden's Heroes charity, the contributaion a thank you for his efforts as well as the small gifts from the Lancaster Whites that were made to him and Jenny, who organised this evening on behalf of BWFC.
The committee would like to thank all who attended for the wonderful turn out, as well as repeating our most heartfelt thanks to Stuart for making the effort to come up the M6 to this outpost of Wanderer's fandom, and to Jenny for her much appreciated efforts that allowed such an enjoyable evening to take place.
A clear night and the vista of Lancaster and Morecambe's lights beneath us greeted the participants at this years Formal Dinner, the fourth annual event. The Gateway Building at the University of Cumbria soon alive with the buzz of conversation and clinking of glasses. The participants showing that , for at least one night a year, the Lancaster Branch of Bolton Wanderers Supporters Association scrubs up quite well!
All too soon we were being ushered to our tables for Dinner, Grace was again offered by Jon Holden, before the tireless efforts of the waiting staff kept us supplied with the fare for the evening.
The formal part to the evening started after coffee, Bill Jay slipping into the role of compere as our Chairman, Steve Horrocks, provided the opening comments. Warren Mason and Dave Jenner providing a more sombre moment as they related their memories of the late Nat Lofthouse, before offering a memorial toast to the great man.
Our guests for the evening then took centre stage, Tony Kelly offering a few words and an introduction to David Lee who kindly answered a barrage of questions from the interested diners. David then took center stage of the proceedings through the various raffles and draws, handling them all with aplomb, the Committee would like to thank David for his tireless efforts on the night, the way he passed around the tables reminding many of the speed and grace with which he used to bless the Wanderer's right wing!
Many thanks to those who entered the various raffles and fund raising activities, and to all those involved in organising the evening.
A final note, the 100% record is still intact, the SuperWhites won the game this weekend, 2-0 vs Everton, even if the game was played after the dinner!
Player Evening - "Super" Kevin Davies
A buzzing, full, room at the Boot and Shoe welcomed our BWFC club captain to Lancaster, a lot of new and old faces congregated to see Kevin Davies and ask him questions that ranged from silly to serious to downright risky. After his recent run in with the authorities, did someone really ask him his opinion of referees!
After a formal welcome, excellently delivered in his own inimicable style by George Richmond, Jon Holden opened the floor to the members, Kevin answering all the inquisitive queries with honesty, humour and most of all, tact!
Then the highlight of the evening for many of those in attendance, a chance to get pictures, shirts and just about anything else autographed and a picture taken with the man himself.
A few more questions to follow and then some official business, Kevin drew the raffle winner for the signed Owen Coyle shirt, congratulations to the Richmonds on winning this. A special treat then as the fan of the year, Alex Taylor, received his trophy, no passing on from previous winner this year! Instead he received it from the man who's shirt Alex had been lucky enough to catch after that stupendous finale to the away match at Stoke.
All too soon, Kevin was slipping out of the door, heading back to the A6, leaving us to reflect on another successful Lancaster White's evening. Our club thanks must go to Kevin for making the effort to be with us and to Jenny from BWFC for her role in organising this. Finally, I think the club's members must thank our chairman, Steve Horrocks, for his persistence in making this evening happen.
Formal Dinner 2010:
The Third Annual Formal Dinner, in the 13th year of the Lancaster White's existence. The Gateway Building at the University of Cumbria provided the surroundings for another wonderful evening, the lights of the Lancaster area twinkling beneath us on their way over to Morecambe Bay. The mood happy and relaxed after 3 points gained against Wolverhampton Wanderers, it was noted that we always seem to win on these occasions, perhaps we should get the club to sponsor another 18 Formal Dinners a season? We would soon be back in European competition!
After the initial mingling of arriving guests and the charging of various glasses, seats were taken and John Holden said Grace for the excellent fare we were about to receive. Thanks must go to Johno Powell for all his organisational efforts in preparing this evening again this year. Whether the same could be said for his table quiz is another matter!
As the dessert plates were cleared away and final answers scrawled on the quiz, John Holden offered thanks for what we had received. The more official business followed, John Powell offering up the Loyal Toast. Our guest, Mark Alderton, Head of BWFC Communications responding with a few words and the toast to the Lancaster Whites, we would like to thank Mark for his time and efforts in being with us for this evening. Dave Jenner responded to this with a few words of his own on the trials and tribulations of away game travel with the Lancaster Whites, before proposing the toast to our illustrious founders. This was responded to by one of the Founders, our Club Chairman, Steve Horrocks, before closing remarks from Bill Jay.
The evening was completed by the marking of the quiz, not surprisingly won by Shaun O'Gara, despite Johno's best efforts to prevent this! The drawing of the raffle, thanks to Becky Holden and Bob Anderson for organising this. And the auction of various items provided by BWFC, the Lancaster Whites thank the Wanderers for their outstanding generosity again, a signed pennant, squad shirt and gameworn / signed shirts from Chung Yong Lee and Ivan Klasnic. We were especially grateful for the Wanderers for providing 2 tickets for this year's FA Cup Final for auction. Congratulations to those winners of the Auctions and Raffle prizes and thank you to all those who participated in them.
As the proceedings wound down, it came as a surprise to many that midnight was already upon us. A testament to this being another enjoyable Lancaster White's evening.
End of Season / Fan of the Year Barbecue 2009
Another season draws to a close, after the final home game against Hull City, the hardy Lancaster Whites retired to the Fleece at Dolphinholme. After charging our glasses,the party moved out to the, much appreciated, marquee and the tantalizing smells of the barbecue hut. Our heartfelt appreciation goes to The Fleece's staff for the welcome and the excellent fare, also to Becky Holden for her role as liaison in organising the event.
As the number of empty glasses and empty plates grew, so did the volume. Due not only to the talkative members but also to the, at times, torrential downpours drumming on the canvas above us. Did someone mention this was mid May? Eventually Steve called for our attention and thanks were given to various attendees, the club presenting our Bon Chaunce driver Len with a bottle of Whisky for his efforts and kindnesses this season.
Steve then called on Alex Jay, as last years recipient, to present the Fan of the Year trophy. He informed us of some of the more amusing incidents concerning this years winner (Did he really go to Munich to watch the game in a Hotel Bar?). Alex then presented the shield to Bob Anderson, who responded with a short acceptance speech.
Player of the Year Evening 2009:
As the faithful Lancaster White members assembled for the annual Player of the Year vote, it became evident that the night would be different to those that had gone before. Andrew Dean (BWFC Promotions Manager), Colin McGreavy (Reebok Stadium Announcer) and the one and only Tony 'Zico' Kelly, now BWFC's Fan Liaison Officer, had dared to make the journey north on a dreary Tuesday evening.
The evening was soon in full swing. Tradition maintained as the younger members of the club took control of the vote counting. George Richmond slipping easily into the role of Chairperson, ably assisted by Matthew and Bethany Holden, whilst the serious business of actually trying to record the votes accurately fell to Becky Holden.
It soon became obvious, by the frequency of Bethany's excited readings of his name, that "Super" Kevin Davies would be the man to beat this year. Kevin was well in the lead by the half time break and consolidated his lead afterwards, becoming the first player to retain the Player of the Year award, as well as the first to win it three times. Gary Cahill came in second, with Matty Taylor and Jussi Jaaskelainen in joint third, Ricardo Gardner completed the top 5.
With the voting over, Colin McGreavy said a few words to us concerning his role as the voice of the Reebok before Tony Kelly took centre stage, Tony gave us various insights into his new role with BWFC. He was, as always, completely entertaining and candid. Whether his tales were sad, happy or bordering on the mad (ask about the dancing lessons!), he kept us all attentive as he talked about the way BWFC is trying to interact with it's fans. Also, if any one ever wants a signed photo of Tony, we were left in no doubt that all you have to do is ask!
We would like to thank the guests again for their time and willingness to talk to us, also for the generous gifts of signed memorabilia that were auctioned on the night.
The Player of the Year shield will be presented at the home match against Sunderland, assuming the responsible party has got it engraved by then!
(--- He did and it was!)
Another well attended Lancaster Whites function. The venue was magnificent, the top floor of the new Gateway builiding at the University of Cumbria. The mood jovial and relaxed, aided by both the Vocals and Piano emanating from the corner of the room, as well as the welcome 3 points just gained against West Ham!
After the opening remarks were received from Steve Horrocks and John Powell, Grace was said by John Holden for the bounty to be received. The food was, again, excellent. The kitchen performing admirably, even after being interrupted when the fire alarms started to ring and the attendees were politely ushered to their appointed places of safety.
After dinner, the toasts were offered, Bill Jay proposed the Loyal Toast, in the correct Lancastrian manner. The round then passed to the Guest of Honour, Mr Phil Gartside, Chairman of BWFC who had, again, made the effort to be with us in Lancaster. After a few comments on the state of BWFC, Mr Gartside proposed the toast to the Lancaster Whites. Bill Jay responded to this on behalf of the club, before the closing remarks and thanks were made by Steve Horrocks.
Congratulations to all those who won prizes in the Raffle and thanks to those who bid most admirably in the Auctions. Thank you especially to Mr Gartside for his donation of a trip to see an England International at Wembley, with hospitality, transport and premium seating, which was auctioned on the night.
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Mozarabic Writings: Eulogius of Córdoba's Memoriale Sanctorum (Book Three)
by Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi
aymennjawad.org
http://www.aymennjawad.org/24849/mozarabic-writings-eulogius-of-cordoba-memoriale
[Last revision: 4 December 2020]
For the prior parts in this series, see:
The third and final book of Saint Eulogius' magnum opus presented here in full translation concerns the beginning of the reign of Muhammad I as amir of the Emirate of Córdoba and his policies of persecution against the wider Christian community as part of the crackdown on the martyrdom movement. The book also details the second wave of 17 martyrs in the period 853-856 CE. These martyrs are listed in the table below. Combined with the 29 martyrs listed in Book Two and the remaining two documented in Eulogius' apologetic work for the martyrs, we get a total of 48 martyrs documented in this mid-ninth century period from Eulogius' works.
Editions consulted for the original Latin text and to check Biblical references in particular:
- Juan Gil, Corpus Scriptorum Muzarabicorum (Madrid, 1973).
- Francisco de Lorenzana, SS. PP. Toletanorum Quotquot Extant Opera...Tomus Secundus (Madrid, 1785).
As always I have included notes for context where necessary. I welcome any suggestions for amendments and corrections regarding the translation.
I would like to dedicate this work to Shiraz Maher, one of my oldest friends who has always supported my endeavours in translation and commentary (and has always been rather amused by them). I think it is only fitting that the culmination of this massive work should be dedicated to such a close friend. I even had the privilege of attending his wedding to Jasmine El-Gamal. Shiraz, may you find much enjoyment in reading the stories of the martyrs of Córdoba and debating them with your beloved.
Since therefore the series of the preceding volumes explained amply the cruelty of the impious, which for a long time strove to wear out the constancy of the men who could not be overcome, and since it indeed explains by the step of assertion the origins, ages and war acts of the saints, this third book lays open something more- as I think- of the savagery committed against us not without heavy wound. And let them not assert that I am exploiting this occasion with arrogant brow, on the basis that I have applied the prop of a very small and, as I have thus said, a very cheap feeble intellect to such great material; or perhaps they should accuse us claiming that we have composed by candlelight matters that are untrue, even as we have prepared the structure of this work by that view, by which we have known that all things in the future are to be judged in the fairness of the engaged Judge, whom neither the hidden things of thoughts nor the quality of works can deceive. So as I know that every person will subject to his burden in the presence of the Lord: why should I wish to weigh down my substance, oppressed as it is by its own burdens, with an external weight? Or what benefit should I hope will be brought to myself through fabricated lies, when I will finally render my account from every word? But from here the mind content with the small veins of tenuous knowledge is agitated, because it tries to attack a matter I will not say must merely be irrigated by a great river's flowing, but also necessarily by the immense sea's flowing, which flows forth hardly moistening the moisture of the very small drip, like small drops of liquid forced forth and extracted.
And let me not be attacked by comparison with the affair of the tired traveller, who enervated of the vigour of strength sits rather often on the journey and is worn out all the more vehemently the more frequently it rests through various places. So also we, having no share in the knowledge of whole richness, linger through the inaccessible paths of locution as though with debilitated step and with sluggish step, as I have thus said, we scarcely touch the limit of the small works and so we opt everywhere for the end of speaking. And then more and more the weak traveller is shaken, when as he hopes that he will now rejoice about the completion of the journey, again suddenly sees that he still must complete an unexpected space. So we also, who believed that we had already finished this small work and rejoiced as though a stormy sea had been crossed through sailing without shipwreck and enjoyed the quiet of the chosen safe port, now observe that something else has arisen by chance, which must be added as a price of effort to the works previously published. Therefore we proceed bound as we are by the lack of eloquence, we proceed occupied with the cases of the immense persecutions, and as though there is a wind surging into the contrary, we shudder at the fact that we have at last been rolled off into the deep sea. But we trust that we will be made to succeed without hesitation by the help of the goodness of the One who has judged us to be worthy of their sight and friendship, so that we should also be imbued with the trophies of those whose sweetness we enjoyed.
Chapter One: The beginning of the King Mahomad[i]
So, as was noted in the end of the second work, when Mahomad obtained the power of his father, he immediately broke forth into prompt hatred against us and on the very day that he was endowed with the fasces and ascended the throne intending to rule, he got rid of all Christians from the palace and promulgated that they were unworthy of the chief ministry of the court.[ii] Again, not much later, he prescribed them under the tributary census,[iii] and deprived of the royal reward more people, who for a long time were nourished by the military provisions. And as has been written: 'As the judge of the people is himself, so also are his ministers.'[iv] So he committed the reigns of the city at the same time to those people, who labouring with the similar zeal of opposition against the people of God might afflict them, uproot them and oppress them everywhere, so that not only should they in no way presume to defame their prophet, but also driven by terrors they should profess the abominable cult. Thus also unbearable grief and ferocious persecution met us from all sides and immerged the majority in the trap of error.
Chapter Two: The error of that exceptor,[v] who previously had driven the saints to be anathematized.
But many turning themselves away from Christ by their own will adhered to the unjust and cultivated the sect of the devil with the greatest affection, just like the behaviour of that bastard unworthy of the benediction of the saints, about whom we mentioned in the second book. This man, putting the pomp of the reverence of this world over the heavenly affairs and revering office instead of God with unheard desire, was cast down from honour in the twelfth month[vi] after he had decreed for the saints to be anathematized and had attacked us with disgraceful insults. And so as he alone of the Christians had been retained by the consuls in the office of exceptor to the eloquence of the Arabic language, in which he had been strongly endowed, he was removed from both the palace and the ministry after some months. He did not bear this deed lightly. As he saw that he was cast down and sighed rather deeply that he had been deprived of such great dignity, he chose more readily to be dead to God rather than not to live for this life so immediately he rejected the faith of the holy Trinity and yielded to the sect of perversity and in no way wanted himself to be seen as Christian anymore. So having been turned into worse things, even as he had never contemplated the simple things, he became an exile from the Christians and was joined to the heathens and with frequent running he entered into that temple of impiety with frequency as though he were one of the ministers of the devil, having been driven out from the temple of God, which even while still a faithful one he only entered with late and sluggish visitation. So it has been written: 'The one who is arrogant will not dwell in the middle of my home. And he who speaks unjust things has not guided his affairs in the sight of my eyes.'[vii] Indeed the same man after the negation was restored into the original honour and set up again in the palace,[viii] where, being the snare and barb to entice others, he would become a trap for others to fall into the scandal of error, just as he had been for himself for the sake of temporal glory.
Chapter Three: The destruction of the basilicas
Meanwhile as the savage conspiracy of the leader grew more often against the group of God and afflicted the Christians everywhere, and not all rushed forth to his rite in a general collapse as he had hoped, he ordered to destroy the churches that had been recently built[ix] and to remove what was gleaming in the old basilicas with new cultivation and had been added with crude shaping in the times of the Arabs. So with this occasion seized on by the governors of darkness, they also destroyed those peaks of the temples, which having been erected by the zeal and industry of the fathers from the time of peace almost exceeded the number of three hundred years from the days of their establishment.
Chapter Four: Concerning the sedition of the provinces[x]
And indeed the rising wars of rebellions brought great trouble for him, for this man waged the privilege of domination in all the cities of Hispania, which his father had subdued and seized in acquisition through the vigour of power and the power of outstanding intellect and the generous gift of rewards. Particularly since he saw that his army, having been slaughtered and put to flight from some places, was everywhere diminished and he lamented that he was heading everywhere for worse things, so he put off for the future the end of perdition that he had long contemplated against us and with slow and sluggish attack he worked on the ruins of the churches. For I believe that if those bolts of difficulty were not standing in the way, he would not allow any of the Christians to tarry with him, indeed, as has been sent forth elsewhere, if he had the convenient license of ruling, he would also compel the Jews to be driven from him,[xi] so that surrounded by the accompaniment of only his people he might only merit to be in charge of those with whom he should pay the punishment of the inextricable torments of the eternal abyss and the unity of the damnable cult should not be cut by the diversity of another religion. Even so, with God calling and vexing through the splendid mysteries of the holy faith, the same man lamented at many still receding and adhering to piety and accepting death on account of Christ with firmer hope, besides those who impeded with the excess fear of the flesh still serve as soldiers for Christ the King under the state mantle with arduous contrition of the heart.
Chapter Five: Concerning the hatred of his own against the king and his greed and the tributes imposed on the Christians
And although as he burned the church of God with the flames of envy and was corrupted by internal thought he languished and strove for the peace of his people, while also arranging to exercise things of this sort against us, in no way can human shamelessness change the divine dispensation, which made him hateful to all, despised by all and execrable to all. So he was attacked even by the domestic hatred and, as they say, the hatred and curse of his concubines. As has been written in truth: 'The just king raises the land, but the greedy man destroys it.'[xii] So this man, burning with unheard burdens of greediness, cut off the provisions of the soldiers, hindered the offerings of tributes and diminished the lunar monthly flow of rewards. And he saw that still cheap taxes and almost scanty were being rendered from neighbouring places to him, because evidently if he was brought by the fault of the people to the sceptre through God's dispensation, nonetheless the cities and nations, driven into the goading of rejection because of the poorness of the merits of this man, did not allow him to enjoy wholly the tributes of the provinces.
Therefore, he turned the arms of punishment against us and he afflicted us like mud of the streets with the beating of domination. He was supported in his choice by the wickedness of certain Christians (if nonetheless they are to be called Christians, and not more workers of iniquity instead) who so that they might obtain the privilege of exacting the chirographs, purchased from the king the lot of the Lord and the gathering of the faithful through their recognizance and crime.[xiii] They loaded the necks of the poor with the unbearable burden of the census tax. Everyday they brought ruin to the people of the Lord, but undoubtedly there is that pronouncement of punishment in the future, which condemning the excesses of such people says: 'And those who bring ruin to your people, let them find perdition.'[xiv] Indeed it would be more fortunate for these people per the word of Truth to have their necks weighed down with the weight of milestones and to be drowned in the sea than to harass the timid with such great scandal or to bring such great force against the small flock, to whom it has pleased the Father to grant the kingdom.[xv] In their sight there is no God but the judgements of God have been removed from their consideration. They are always envious, always unjust, everywhere malicious, angry against each other, peaceable in the uprooting of others, unfaithful in confederations, cunning in circumvention, most apt in the preparing of harmfulness, divided for themselves in turn, united to destroy others, roused to deceive, slow to pity, arrogant in procession, proud in assertion, dubious in promise, avaricious in giving, stingy in largess, greedy in accepting, promising that which cannot be given, bringing that which cannot be enjoyed. They do not sleep without doing evil[xvi] and hasten to rise to iniquity, and they rejoice when they do evil and take delight in the worst matters,[xvii] and although they declare they are Christians, everyday they crucify Christ in His limbs, following the teachings of the traitor Judas, who, having his predecessor crucified through sale while squandering money, dug for himself the trap of perdition, but brought the due freedom to the world. These people indeed embody the same person, when they afflict His redeemed with cruel accusation and- what I profess not without the heavy wound of my heart- they regrettably compel those whom they should have protected (since we are members of Christ for each other)[xviii] to deny Christ.
Chapter Six: Concerning the insult of the leaders against the martyrs
In the meantime, as these evils were overhanging, and the church was being attacked by the afflictions of this sort, they say that because of this the king, inundated with huge joy, promised that he would inflict further troubles on the faithful and, as has been explained elsewhere, would grind them down with terrible attack and trouble, if he should obtain the beneficial outcome of ruling for a longer time. As a result, most of the leaders who once insulted the constancy of the martyrs who fell retorted to us: 'Whither now has gone the virtue of your strugglers? Whither has the magnanimity fled? Where hides the temerity that has been absorbed? Where has the enervated courage led itself away? They indeed with hasty steps zealously came forward to attack our dogmatist and were killed with due revenge, let them now be present, let them now come, indeed hurry, if inspired by divine intervention they engage in that struggle in truth.'
Chapter Seven: Concerning the martyr Fandila
While there they derided us with mockeries of this sort and by this mockery they wore out our wretched state almost finished with disasters, a certain young man Fandila of handsome look, of decent and good life, a holy presbyter full of reverence for God, was the first to open the door and approach of exercising martyrdom under the privilege of this tyrant amid these slaughters and savage crises. And so this man, whose origin was from the town of Acci[xix] came to Córdoba for the sake of learning and spent almost all his adolescence there under the tradition of the pedagogue. As soon as he approached youth, he took delight in the monastic conversation[xx] and immediately mixed with the monks intending to serve as a soldier in submission to the yoke of God. After he travelled and moved about through some places, in which his devoted burning mind could not rest, finally he brought himself into the Tabanensian monastery.[xxi] There he spent some time under the regular discipline and regime of the abbot Martinus he shone rather perfectly in the fear of the Lord.
And since he was of the greatest humility and great obedience, therefore by the grace of sanctity, by which he shone through divine intervention, while the monks of the monastery of Saint Salvator (which is located not far from the city of Córdoba in the north at the foot of the pinnacle of Mellaris) implored and requested for a long time, he was elected to the priestly office. Unwillingly and, as I have thus said, he undertook his holy ministry with the insistence and prejudgement of his abbot and nonetheless he increased his labours of fasts, vigils and prayers more readily than usual and walked from virtue into virtue intending to see the Lord after being carried out onto Sion through the ladders of his merits. Although his venerable life and conversation that is necessarily an example of imitation for all were revealed sufficiently with the worthy proclamation of praises by the relation of the same brothers and sisters of whom he was in charge, nonetheless the more magnificently they were declared, the more he passed over his most flourishing youth with robust mind and did not hesitate to subject his life to the sword of martyrdom.
Therefore with the perfection of the fear of the Lord accompanying him, as he looked down on all earthly things and hung his mind in heaven and desired to be dissolved as a better outcome and to live with Christ rather than to cling to perishable things, on a certain day with strengthened face he stood in the presence of the judge and preached the Gospel, denounced the unchaste prophet and he held that the crowd joined to the filthiness of the noxious cult, unless it regained its senses and adopted the faith of piety, would pay the penalties in the avenging fires. From here driven into prison and bound with chains he was locked up in the dwellings of the bandits, finally to be beheaded by the decree of the leader.
The judge did not defer this deed to be related to the hearing of the king, who was lit up with the fire of immense fury and dulled with a certain horror wondered in his stupidity what was that conquering boldness, which (he felt) did not fear a king of such great glory and drove forward to such ventures of irreverence a head so sublime with falsehood and arrogance and (as it thought itself) excelling over all things. Therefore in the same moment under a terrible voice he decreed for the bishop to be arrested, but he was protected by the remedy of flight and was saved. But they say, already then with no delay he had decreed for his punishment; he had even ordered to destroy all the Christian men in a general pronouncement and to scatter the women through public dissolution of marriage contract, except those who rejected the religion and should turn to his cult. And if this edict had not been shaken by the advice of the governors, from here I believe already from the foundations it would have extinguished our Christianity partly by the sword, partly by error. The governors advised as they did because they asserted that they should not kill all of them since no wise person, no urbane and none of the leaders of the Christians had committed a matter of this sort, and a personal leader was not leading them to battle. However, killing the most brave athlete by the sword, he ordered for him to be hanged on a fork-shaped yoke beyond the river.
Chapter Eight: The deeds of the martyrs Anastasius, Felix and Digna
Following him on the next day was Anastius the presbyter, who from the entering age was educated in the disciplines and literature at the basilica of Saint Acisclus of Córdoba and spent time there in the office of the deaconship all the way to the fullness of his youth. After he had spent time on his knees in the monastic life, in which he had long taken delight with the ministry rejected, he was at last applied to the priesthood. With eager step he sought the palace and stood before the consuls and striking the enemy of the faith with the true goads of the assertions he was immediately beheaded with the sword and hanged. With him also the monk Felix born from the Complutensian town, Gaetulian[xxii] by nation and who ended up in Asturias by some occasion, where he learnt both the Catholic faith and the monastic religion. On the same day and by the same profession he was beheaded and cast down.
And as that day filled the greatest change of its course and was now turning into the ninth hour, a certain young virgin, called Digna and deservedly so,[xxiii] from the college of the venerable Elisabeth, whose account the second book brought out, proceeded to the palm with God's revelation and strengthening. For a little before her martyrdom she saw through a dream a girl adorned with evangelic habit and appearance standing before her, holding roses and lilies in her hand. When she asked her about her name and the reason for her arrival, she said: 'I am Agatha,[xxiv] once destroyed by terrible punishments because of Christ. And now I have come to confer the part of this royal gift to you. Receive gladly the offering and act with bravery for the Lord. For I am going to give the remainders of the roses and lilies, which I keep in my hands, to those who will migrate after you from this place.' So the most consecrated virgin illustrated by such appearance and gift- as she[xxv] took up the rose from the right hand of the one conversing- became mixed with the heavenly breezes and was removed from the sites of the one who was gazing at her.
But this girl, although she finally judged herself among the fellow virgins for the utmost humility and obedience and was obedient with incomparable preparation, nonetheless never allowed herself to be called Digna and would say with tears: 'Do not call me Digna, but rather Indigna,[xxvi] because I also ought to be called by the name of what merit I am.' And when, driven from the day of her revelation by the love of martyrdom, she had begun to ponder more often in tacit thought by what means she could aspire to it, she became sufficiently more joyful as she was instructed in the martyrdom of these people, by which she might succeed to the crown as though these people were preceding. And so after the locks of the monastery were silently opened, when she had discovered that the blessed martyrs were already hanging, she sought the judge with eager step and asked with fearless assertion why he butchered her brothers who proclaimed justice. She said: 'Or is it because we are worshippers of God and revere faithfully the holy Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, professing the one and true God, and we not only deny all that which dissents from this belief, but also detest, curse and confound it, and therefore we are struck down?'
As the girl explained these things and things similar to these things with holy and immaculate mouth, the judge without hesitation committed her to the executioners to be beheaded, who soon brought the butchery to the delicate necks. And she fell with her limbs not terrified in delay, and she was turned downwards and hung on a rack and added to the rest across the river. So in this order all three of those named- namely, Anastasius the presbyter, Felix the monk and the blessed virgin Digna- fell at different times on the same day: on the eighteenth day before the Kalends of July, in era 891.[xxvii]
Chapter Nine: Benildis the matron martyr
Finally following these people was Benildis a woman already carried forth in age and, as they say, very much filled with the fear of God. She fell under the profession of the rest on the seventeenth day before the Kalends of July,[xxviii] in the aforementioned era. Their bodies after some days were cremated in a huge fire and scattered finally by the discharge of the river.
Chapter Ten: Saint Columba the martyr
We are compelled by both the numerousness of those struggling and the due support of vows to extend the pen into the long series of diction. From here it is that the material of this small work augmented further than we thought into a great codex has almost exceeded the measure of mediocrity, for after so many deaths and crises of unbearable burdens we thought that no one would straightaway approach such things. But we in no way keep silent about the things begun, by which we should narrate the accounts of all as we have promised.
Meanwhile there was a certain noble and beautiful virgin, called Columba, born from the town of Córdoba, a sister of the aforementioned abbot Martinus and Elisabeth, about whom we have mentioned in the preceding sections. As she spent time among her parents' property most gently in her years as a girl, she recognised the intention of her sister Elisabeth, which while still mixed with the common people they managed with her husband Hieremias, as long before they sought the monastery they consecrated themselves to Christ with many religious acts amid the gatherings of the people. Very often she left the company of her parents and more frequently visited the home of her sister and chose to have herself assigned to such things and desired to be a slave panting for this intention. And so immediately she desired to reject all earthly things, but her mother fighting back opposed the girl's intention, as she also was aroused with the disgraceful motions of anger against her offspring Elisabeth and her husband and complained heavily that she was thus enticing the mind of a young person as herself and causing this person to be lost and abandoning the world blooming with its flower through the dissipation of their marriage they desired to manage the affair in the solace of external people.
But amid this conflict (as is the custom of the people) the girl was sought for a nuptial union, and with frequent interruptions they sought to involve in affairs of this world the girl assigned by divine intervention to the nuptials of the heavenly bedrooms. And although she did not agree and the mother did not desist from seeking to have her handed over to marriage, the mother herself by the providence of God suddenly occupied with the trouble of illness was taken away from this world and receded under quick calling. The servant of God remained not so much sad at the death of her mother as more joyful by the grace of her devotion to be fulfilled without the prejudice of anyone.
But as both of the sisters engaged in the holy religion at the city, immediately the Tabanensian monastery became filled, as we have said, with their own expenditures. So the men brought themselves intending to serve as soldiers for Christ alongside the women. There the holy virgin extirpated herself from earthly things and clung to the heavenly things and turned her mind to the study of the scriptures she became more erudite in investigating and discussing the obscurities of opinions. The holiness of the blessed virgin grew and the fame of the monastery spread far and wide and also invited the rushing of cities located far away to it, so that they might be imbued by the teachings of such examples. But this virgin remaining under the regime of her brother Martinus and Elisabeth excelled in merits and preceded all in the grace of decency, as she was laudable in conversation, sublime in humility, perfect in chastity, firm in kindness, attentive in praying, apt for obeying, mild for showing mercy, easy to indulge, eloquent to preach, ready to instruct. Also shining with these virtues she brought about the affection of all towards her, as she was the norm and mirror of sanctity for all. And as she was driven frequently by the temptations of the adversary, so she offered herself with more frequent weeping in the province of the Lord, fearing that the long toils of her labours would perish through the break-in of the cheapest robber. From here she was elevated to the greater caution of sanctity and driven by fear of the enemy she strove more skilfully for the summit of virtues through a stricter life.
Often the tempter softened this girl with illnesses, and sent in aversion, offered the appearance of men, added long provision and caused weariness through various phantoms. Driven by horrible fear she grieved monstrously at these things, lest by the lapse of death she should be divided from the accompaniment of the spouse, for whose kindness she asserted that she was inflamed with such great ardour inside, that being wounded in her mind for desire of him like the scar of excised flesh she asserted that she could not heal herself in any way except through the sight of him in the heavens. She never insulted through her words any sinner, however oppressed he was by rather grave sins. She did not make judgements about any actions, she despaired about no one's salvation, and she did not look down on anyone even if he was made infamous through disgraceful rumours. 'I know,' she reported, 'the skills of the demons, I know the insolences of men, who attack in the meantime with the insult of cursing the very same person whom the Omnipotent considers approved by rather worthy merits. For there are many things condemned in human judgement that have been approved and sanctified in divine counsel, and in general men transgress the divine opinion by their own opinions, while they do not know of which merit each person remains with Him, and nonetheless now as though presages of the hidden things they both preach what is worthy and deem disreputable what is bad, although indeed they would judge more inculpably if they were to look at themselves, and if they were considering by how great and to what kind of burden each person should be subject and with what kind of debt the accused should be, in no way would they dispute culpably about unknown things. But not a few commit these acts, by which the divine rebuke once brought forth against us should be strengthened in truth, where it says: 'Attend and listen. No one says that which is good. There is no one who does penance because of his sin, saying: What have I done?'[xxix] These very people, having neglected the roof of crime, remaining concerned about the trifles of others, affirm that which they have captured with the light ear of whisper to be true nonetheless and in no way unbelievable.'
But never did the most mild virgin move anger without cause, except when by chance she saw someone negligent either from the little girls or the sisters, whom she rebuked in humbleness with the gaze of eyes alone. Never did she break forth on occasion into the insult of anyone, never was her mouth occupied with false talk, never did she allow anile and idle stories to be admitted to her ears. Contemplating Christ in heart, and Christ more often in mouth, she sang more frequently that antiphony with all affection which the blessed fathers chose in sweet song in praise of the saints: 'Open for me, oh Lord, the door of Paradise, so that I may be returned to that homeland, where there is no death, where the sweet joy perseveres.' With these people she delighted to converse, whose mind girded with spiritual virtue managed the limbs mortified with vices and desires. And she did not display the approach of seeing her to anyone except by chance the spiritual men, and that was very rare and rather serious. For the rooms of the women were separated from the cells of the monks with high walls placed between, although they were managed by the governance of one father, nonetheless these women in sequestered small dwellings did not provide the opportunity for anyone to gaze on them at all. But if immediately either a congruous necessity pressed on the brothers or the pious humanity of guests got its way, only the venerable Elisabeth would exhibit herself to be seen through the window, as she was the first and true mother of the whole monastery.
Therefore at a certain time Columba sought from her fellow sisters that amid the rooms a small cell be given to her in a certain corner, where remaining alone with herself she might be free from the roar of the rest. The holy sisters assented to the request and provided help by her agreement to increase the sanctity of the virgin, as they trusted also from there that they would get some reward. As also the zeal of holy conversation is worthy of the reward, so also is the religious affection towards those living piously, and good agreement does not differ from deeds, as it is not shaken by the virtue of the mind, but by the defect of strength, so that when by chance there has not been the vigour of the body to exercise such things, there should be the intention of the mind to delight in similar things. For common are the transactions of the holy work and thus they become most pleasing to Christ, by which we report for our benefit with simplicity in perfected kindness the zeal of the fraternal sanctity.
In short, having obtained the blessing of the sisters, the venerable virgin, now removed from every proceeding of the monastic cares, persevered for much time in the contemplation of God and the mediation on the scriptures, after frequent sights and immense weeping, in which she stood out above very many by the special gift through divine intervention, again she turned back to meeting in order to instruct the minds of the fellow virgins through divine fodder. But they say that very often she lay down in prayer for three and four hours, and sometimes into the middle of the day, and although no sighs resounded and her limbs were not struck with any convulsive sigh, nonetheless she brought forth weeping in great silence, in such a way that beneath the mat on which she would pray with prostrated body, the pavement would be shown wettened with tears. Also considering the greatest course while standing in beseeching, she was suddenly brought forth into such great speculation, that the twin river of tears descending from both eyes to the chin were turned into one course and would flow with a frequent dripping of one drop at a time onto the ground as though they were from a roof.
Meanwhile as the fury of persecution that raged to destroy the churches moved this collective of women to the city,[xxx] they brought themselves into the small estate, which they had erected for themselves a long time ago next to the basilica of Saint Cyprianus in order to be hidden. Here now the most blessed virgin was set and she wept incomparably and grieved very much both for her quiet that she had in the mountains and the tumults that she had encountered in the city. Nonetheless she always shouted with heart and tongue: 'You have known, oh Lord, that I did not desire the day of man over the earth.'[xxxi] She always preached, she always prayed, she always sang psalms, she the praise and the blessing of the Lord always resonated in her mouth. And as the dwelling of the virgins clung to the walls of the aforementioned sanctuary and she was merely separated from the vestibule of the altar by the interjection of the wall: if by chance she had heard from the clerics singing psalms some song resonating with the praises of the saints through the feast days of the martyrs, she would immediately be goaded by some pleasant feeling of the heavenly longings and would burst forth into tears, so that you would believe she was no less proclaiming within: 'My soul has thirsted for the living God. When will I come and appear before the face of God? Tears have been for me the bread by day and night, while it is said to me daily: Where is your God?'[xxxii] For the connections of the body are those things by which the mind of each saint retained in this journey is separated from that ineffable clarity of the saints even as it is consumed with the great thirst for supernal desires. They are like the barriers of walls that prevent the mind from reaching the city of the living with quick step as it wishes. So the mind, believing that the burden of the limbs is seemingly resisting it on the contrary, weeps and says: 'My tears have been for me the bread by day and night, while it is said to me daily: 'Where is your God?" With Him indeed it longs to be, with Whom the apostle desired to remain after mortality was already undone, and said: 'It is better to be dissolved and to be with Christ.'[xxxiii]
Indeed unceasingly did Saint Columba practise these vows, when she herself brought something more, as I think, of the Crucified into her very self than the furious torturer inflicted. For as she continued the labours of the vigils, fasts and prayers, as though all these torments brought onto herself by her own willing were small, it was as though she did not have confidence even in her own merits, even if she exercised greater things, and she feared that she would find the hundredth fruit of her virginity devoid of benefit in the eyes of the Father. So she aspired without doubt to the ineffable profit of martyrdom, which even sends the sinners by direct path into the kingdom of heaven as the Gospel says: 'The kingdom of heaven endures force and the violent snatch it away.'[xxxiv] From here aroused more ardently with love for Christ she gasped to reach Him whom she had faithfully served with quick steps, and she was also driven frequently by certain revelations to that, and so on a certain day she got out of the hiding place and quietly unlocked the doors and departed into the forum. Although she was unfamiliar with the streets of the city, nonetheless by foresight of inquiry she learnt where the judge was tarrying.
There when she had reached him and was standing before his sights, she gave the profession of the Catholic faith, brought forth the truth of the gospel, denounced the unjust dogma and declared the author taking up such things to be of great crime, and finally goaded the judge with still soft words asking why he joined himself to such sacrilegious things. Amazed at her appearance and words, the judge immediately led her into the palace and put her before the council of the governors. There she still professed, preached, admonished that all ought to consult the interest of their own salvation rather than engage in false deceptions, by which they tried to convert it. Also she said: 'Christ does not have such a spouse who can be changed from the original contract of His pledges. For who is richer than He, that you believe you can entice me with the riches of these worldly affairs? Who is more beautiful than He, the form of whose appearance is eminent above the sons of men, that you think I am to take delight in an earthly marriage? Which cult and sect is more holy than the truth of the evangelical faith, which promulgated by the voices of the apostles through the whole world promises the reward of eternal hope to the believers? Is there no doubt in truth that every claim of prophethood that differs from it is anathema? Therefore abandon the falsehood and seek the true leader of the gospel, by which you might beater be called the sons of light rather than the progeny of darkness and the offspring of death. For he said: 'He who follows me, will not walk in darkness, and all who live and believe in me will never die."[xxxv]
Therefore when all the consuls noticed the very strong constancy of the virgin and saw that imbued with such oracles she could not be changed and they could bear the exhortation of her assertion, immediately they ordered for her to be butchered before the doors of the palace. As they set her up in the forum with the greatest reverence, she did not permit herself to be beheaded before the most consecrated virgin should honour the executioner with the reward. And thus rather bent over as she inclined her neck, her pleasing body was laid low on the fall of the sword. And without delay, as it was covered with linen threads, the leaders ordered the body to be placed in a plaited basket and cast forth into the river, and not like the rest of the corpses of the slain did they either leave it before the doors or hang it on a rack. This was on the fifteenth day before the Kalends of October, era 891.[xxxvi] After the sixth day, it was brought to us unharmed and whole through divine intervention by the skill of some monks and it merited an honourable burial with worthy duty in the basilica of Saint Eulalia the virgin and martyr, which was located in the village of Fragellas. This was related to us in faith about her.
But you, oh most holy one, who grant the Catholic church patronage of your merits both by living in the example of conversation and dying on high, be mindful of your cultivator, rescue me from the traps of this world, drag me away from the disturbances of this life and grant to me after death the rest of Paradise through our Lord Jesus Christ, who lives with the Father and the Holy Spirit, the one and immortal God forever and ever. Amen.
Chapter Nine: Pomposa the virgin and martyr
Therefore when on that very day the rumour of the consummated martyrdom of the aforementioned virgin had reached the notification of many and crept not only into the whole city but also the neighbouring places, a certain venerable virgin, called Pomposa rushed quickly on the next day as soon as she heard of the martyrdom from people saying. She was from the monastery of Saint Salvator, which has been set at the foot of Pinna Mellaria, where she had long ago brought herself with her parents, brothers and relatives as she intended to serve as a soldier for Christ, and from which previously the most blessed Fandila the priest of the same place had once descended. So this blessed virgin, seeing the holy conversation of parents and relatives that they used to carry out in Córdoba from which they had been born, immediately assigned herself to such a vow with avid mind. Along with these things at the same time she rejected this world, and abandoned transient things, and promised integrity and strove with all effort to seek what would remain for eternity.
For her parents constructed the aforementioned monastery after the division of the patrimony in the that place, which was called Pinna Mellaria because of the fact that from the time of antiquity our ancestors saw the honeycombs fashioned by the industry of the bees in that rather high cliff. So as they placed themselves in that same place to pursue monastic life, they say that this blessed girl flourished by the grace of sanctity amid the gathering of the sisters, and as she held the last grade through age, she became elevated with the more excellent peak of innocence and merit of simplicity than the rest. And so much she remained in the strongest meditation of the scriptures that, if it was possible, she did not take time off from reading in the nights or days, unless she were impeded by the storms of certain incongruous tempests. If by chance she sensed that anything was exaggerated to her injustice, she sustained with patient mind all things as she stood out by the grace of blessed humility. She insisted on vigils, fasts and rather frequently went to sleep with prayers, by which through the Lord's support she could preserve inviolably the promised vow.
There are more things that we have got to know concerning her sanctity by the report to us from the servant of Christ the monk Felix, the abbot of the same monastery. We have left these things for the sake of avoiding tedium to that, which undoubtedly sent her forth to heaven, so we hurry forth as quickly as possible. So as she had the zeal of the greatest holiness and served God faithfully, as soon as she learnt of the martyrdom of the blessed Columba, immediately she burned inside with the fire of martyrdom, now reconstituted much happier with such news and she considered in silent and singular consideration by what steps she could attain that thing. Oh what wonderful vocation of the Lord and what approach of the supernal disposition laid open, by which no one predestined for martyrdom is defrauded of the glory of martyrdom, by which no one ascribed to the group of the saints can be held by human entrapment! But they say that much more before this time this virgin would have flown towards martyrdom, if she had not been impeded by some bolts of her kinsfolk, who preserved her with deep custody because of the savage persecutions.
But what use is the miserable condition of custody, when it has been written: 'If the Lord does not guard, they watch over in vain'[xxxvii]- that is, those who think that they can guard anything in human capacity? So as the night came upon and with the nocturnal vigil consummated in the praises of God, one of her brothers, as the rest retired to bed in order to rest, took the key and uncharacteristically opened the door of the monastery and pushed it back with hardly a nail placed over. He did this as though he were advised by divine intervention and certainly not without the providence of the Lord. She silently approached it and secretly opened the entrance and wandered through the darkness of the night illustrated by the heavenly light and undertaking that while horrid journey with vast solitude before the first looming of light, she entered the city as the morning grew light and did not hesitate to present herself to the sights of the judge. She put forth the account of the holy faith to him and denounced the unchaste prophet with simple exhortation, so immediately he decreed for her to be butchered by the sword. And thus set before the doors of the palace she was laid low after her head was cut off on the thirteenth day before the Kalends of October in era 891.[xxxviii] They cast forth her corpse into the river and it was brought together in a small pit by the zeal of certain hirelings and buried over with much dust. After this again, with Christ's support, almost twenty days later it was dragged out from there by the industry of certain months and they brought it back to the aforementioned sanctuary of the blessed virgin Eulalia, and in the same place it was buried with the ministry of the priests and religious ones at the feet of Saint Columba. Nonetheless we believe this was accomplished through divine dispensation, that those who had loved each other in their life with such great kindness, should also remain undivided in death and burial, with the Lord Jesus Christ reigning forever.
Chapter Twelve: Abundius the presbyter and martyr
But from this time after an interval of ten months, a certain presbyter called Abundius who arose from the village of Ananellos, which is in the Córdoban mountain, and there he pursued his priesthood. They say that he was dragged to his martyrdom by the scheming and trickery of certain heathens. But the servant of God, when she saw that he was being chosen by a certain vocation for the true sacrifice through divine intervention, approached with the agreeable mind where he was led unwillingly. And thus interrogated by the judge he laid open the account of the faith with fearless response, and finally tread down the wicked dogmatist and his cult followers with the charges of assertions. And so under quick indignation he was killed and left to the dogs and beasts to be devoured on the fifth day before the Ides of July, era 892.[xxxix]
Chapter Thirteen: The martyrdom of the saints Amator, Petrus and Hludovicus
So in the following time, there was a certain young presbyter called Amator, who had once come from the town of Tuccitanum to Córdoba with his father and brothers in order to learn. There were also Petrus the monk and Hludovicus our fellow Córdoban and the brother of the deacon Paulus, whose martyrdom the second book expounds: they came from the citizens of Córdoba. All these men bound themselves with one pact and chose to preach the truth of the Gospel. And so quickly under the profession of the preceding they were killed on the second day before the Kalends of May, in era 893.[xl] Their bodies, immersed in the river depths, were exposed to the shore by God's support after some days, and although the holy priest gave no news within of his rest, nonetheless the rest of the saints were venerably stored in the foreseen places. So the blessed Petrus was buried in the monastery of Pinna Mellaria, and Hludovicus rests with dignity in a village of the Italicensian province[xli] called Palma, which lies by the river Singilio.
Chapter Fourteen: Concerning the martyr Witesindus
In that tempest there was a certain man Witesindus of full age and from the Egabrensian province.[xlii] He had incurred the lapse of the holy faith some time ago because of some persecution. While he was being called to the practice of the recently adopted cult, he refused to remain infected with the sacrilege of this sort, which he had taken up suddenly because of both the infirmity of the flesh and the trickery of the devil. In that moment, while he was professing such things, he was killed under quick indignation, in the aforementioned era.[xliii]
Chapter Fifteen: The martyrdom of Helias the presbyter and Paulus and Isidorus the monks
Meanwhile Helias the presbyter already an old man from the province of Lusitania[xliv] along with Paulus and Isidorus the monks who were still flourishing with youthful age were killed under the profession of the prior people on the fifteenth day before the Kalends of May, in era 894.[xlv] Their bodies, raised on fork-shaped yokes, were after many days laid away in the Baetican bay.[xlvi]
Chapter Sixteen: Concerning Argimirus the monk and martyr
From there moreover Argimirus a certain professor- a nobleman and already full in age- originated from the Egabrensian town, and at a certain time was made censor of patrician Córdoba by the king. While he quietly cultivated the leisure of the monastery after he left the judicial administration, he was tricked by the trickery and hatred of certain heathens and was accused in the presence of the judge concerning insult of their prophet and he was rebuked for the profession of the divinity of the Son of God, and on the grounds that he professed no one else was more omnipotent than He and asserted the other man to be the author of falsehood and the leader of the damned. Immediately the slave of God placed under the large and most ferocious movement of the judge was bound with much restriction in the prisons. After some days the judge ordered him to come to his presence, while he was eager to transfer him to the false rite through his exhortations and with a certain flattery of words but he could not do so, he imposed the soldier of Christ- tenacious as he was in the holy intent- on the rack while he was still alive and killed him through the piercing of the sword on the fourth day before the Kalends of July, in era 894.[xlvii] When his body was laid down from the fork-shaped yoke after many days by the order of the judge, it was carried to the basilica of Saint Acisclus by the skill of a certain religious person and it was buried near the grave of the aforementioned martyr and saint Perfectus[xlviii] by the worthy ministry of the priests.
Chapter Seventeen: Concerning Aurea the virgin and martyr
In that storm a certain noble virgin, called Aurea, the sister of the saints Adulphus and Ioannes, the martyrs about whom we mentioned in the preceding sections, performed the reward of devotion from the time of their fall. She remained through almost thirty years[xlix] and more with the revealed studies of the sacred religion in the Cuteclariensian monastery,[l] which was dedicated from old times to the name of the holy and glorious Virgin Mary. She gave notification of her faith to all and not overshadowed by any fears, she managed the conversation of her Christianity with open meeting. And since she was endowed with her noble origin and was adorned with great pride of Arab descent, no one of the outsiders dared to complain of the virgin's faith. That was until some of her kinsfolk from the Hispalensian province,[li] from where she drew her origin came in order to inquire about the truthfulness of the rumour that was brought to them as well as the intention of the virgin. I think they were hastened by divine intervention, by which the crown of martyrdom already due to the virgin before the constitution of the world might be prepared for her and she might rejoice more readily in the heavenly things from the consummated triumph. They cleverly lied that they were visiting for the sake of looking out for their kinsperson. As they saw that not only was she Christian, but also marked with the sign of sacred devotion, they immediately referred a complaint about her to the judge, who also himself was related to the same virgin by the right of birth through the concrete lineages.
Therefore aroused by such a report he ordered her to attend before his sights, and asked with very gentle exhortation why she rendered herself degenerate through the servitude of the Christian faith even as she had been augmented so nobly and why she stained the honour of such a noble lineage with this cheap intention. He said: 'But you will be able to be absolved from all the filth as quickly as possible and receive the due clarity of the polished origin, if having regard for your own interest you choose for yourself to be admitted to the cults of our faith with the deepest vows and obeying us with the greatest affections you follow that which we follow and you hurry to go where we are led. But if you both abrogate us despised as we are and also those things we follow and you decide to follow with the intuition of faith those whom you have so far emulated, after various torments of terrible torture, after immense punishments of multiple pains, which you pay deservedly as the defendant in such a great crime, finally you will incur the punishment of the most disgraceful death.' They say in the same moment that the virgin yielded under the rebuke of the judge and promised that she would gladly carry out everything she was commanded to do. And since it is better for those who have not investigated to be silent about matters than to ventilate unknown things in insolence: by the cover of what matter this very negation inserted itself into the future virgin, whether through the fear of flesh or for the sake of dealing with a familial matter, I do not dare to testify as I did not discover, unless by chance we are to believe that she did not succumb through the infirmity of the flesh (as the conjecture of human judgement would suggest) on account of the subsequent events, in which afterwards she endured obstinately in the profession and obtained the merited laurel.
Therefore after the judge heard her profession, by which she had pledged in the presence of all to practise the rites of their law, he immediately granted her the freedom for her to go wheresoever she wanted. So she returned home immediately. And just as before as a soldier performing service for Christ, she in no way laid aside the proposition of the holy faith and she did not allow herself to be separated from the company of the faithful, but rather mixing herself very often with the gatherings of those whom the religion of piety pervaded, with appropriate weeping and internal emotion she lamented the lapse of the tongue and she bound the true confidence of her hope to the indulgence of the Redeemer, if by chance He should not drive away the guilty servant because of the guilt of error, for previously He had snatched away the adulterer from the death of stoning[lii] and received Petrus who was falling asleep from the fluctuations of the sea as he was to carry out the apostolic supremacy[liii] and He admitted the thief stained by murder to His company as He was going to traverse Paradise.[liv] And she did not believe that the momentary crime of the useless servant would obstruct the very abundant and incomparable piety of the Lord, as with Him very much pity and abundant and exuberant redemption has come before those unworthy of the gift of grace, and He pardons through the consideration of piety those for whom no payments for strenuous labour are at hand. Moreover the holy virgin increased her drive, multiplied her zeal of lamentation, multiplied vows upon vows and with double grief and emotion she pressed upon her mind greatly and strove with happy vows so that in the final agony, she should not be seized by the eternal punishment after being condemned for a crime or be driven away from the company of her brothers- namely the blessed martyrs Adulphus and Ioannes- through the congruent barriers of merits.
So with clear and fearless procession she frequently approached the church, now strengthened in the virtue of the Lord, removed from the earthly contagions and gasping to be ascribed to the heavenly assembly, if by chance she should be put before the judiciary by the renewed event of some testimony. But the cunning fellow[lv] did not bear these matters lightly. He understood that the recently got off was now serving as a soldier for her Creator with more faithful union than before and he did not observe that the trick of his trickery was of benefit in any way within, because he had come to know that with some stupor of dullness cast in, the tongue of the virgin was turned away lightly and carelessly from the profession of the truth. Noticing that she had been carried away in tongue, but not in heart, he undoubtedly complained to his fellow demons about the diminished progress, saying: 'This celibate woman previously honoured me by chance through her lips, but her heart, girded with the supernal virtue, is separated from my enticements by a great obstacle.' And so itching again to persecute the blessed virgin, he drove some new recruit to test her in her faith.
Meanwhile several of the heathens, investigating her conversation, nonetheless found the servant of Christ was following her prior habit. So immediately they put a complaint about her in the presence of the judge, asserted a crime and brought forth their tricks and contended with perverse tongues that the punisher should oppose the presumption of such great abuse and strike down such audacious acts with legal authority. So he, immediately aroused with vehement anger, ordered for her to be brought before his sights by the vicious ministry of the ferocious attendants. And immediately after she was displayed before him, he rebuked her concerning the contempt for the recently adopted cult, and threatened her about the neglect of the promised proposition and asked with horrible sounding shouts why she did not honour the decree of such great legal force. Then the virgin, who had known that she was already chosen for such a struggle by divine intervention, as she was eloquent with more prudent pronouncements of tongue, and already illustrated with the holy regard, replied to the judge: 'I was never separated from Christ my God, and never did I depart from the religion of His piety, never even for a moment did I adhere to your profanities, although some time ago in your presence the tongue of conversation succumbed by some lapse. But my art had trust in the Lord, who raised me within by the supports of His promises saying: 'He who believes in me, even if he has died, shall live.'[lvi] From there although I came into the trap of error by word, nonetheless I had my heart fortified with the vivid steadfastness of the holy faithfulness. For as soon as I departed from you I exercised with vows and tearful emotions the cult I had learned from my infancy, I kept the faith, and I held the proposition. Therefore now it only remains that either I should be punished according to the right of your profanity or if it is possible to pass over the deed of this sort unavenged, then it remains that you should let me go with all liberty to adhere to Christ the Lord.'
Then the most monstrous judge, inflamed by the assertion of the virgin, as he intended to make a report about her to the king, handed her over to the prisons and bound her with the huge weight of chains. On the next day he had her killed by the sword through the decree of the leader, and immediately ordered for her lifeless body to be suspended with head downwards on the fork-shaped yoke of a certain murdered, who had been fixed to it a few days before. Her blessed corpse, which was immersed in the Baetican waters[lvii] with the rest of the limbs of the thieves who had then been killed on account of disgrace, has so far provided no trace of appearance. But Christ our God and Lord, who is the helper of those who fight and the crowner of the martyrs, who gives power to the weary, brings about the desire of searching for Him and brings to them the intention of knocking on the provident door of His mercy.[lviii] By the manifold accomplishment of matters, He has taken up in peace His female servant who was known beforehand and predestined for the crown of martyrdom before the beginning of the world. This is in accordance with the dispensation He has decided on. To Him belong honour and glory, virtue and power forever. Amen. This virgin was crowned on the fourteenth day before the Kalends of August, in the aforementioned era.[lix]
[i] Muhammad I, the amir of Córdoba who succeeded his father Abd al-Rahman II.
[ii] A question that arises regarding the status of the dhimmi is what kind of jobs he can carry out in an Islamic state. While there would be little objection to employing a dhimmi in a lower-level state administrative role concerned with affairs of dhimmis (e.g. exacting jizya tax from them), more problematic is employing a dhimmi in a position that entails some kind of responsibility (wilaya) over affairs of the Muslims. For example, Ibn al-Qayyim (a theologian who wrote much later than the time of these events) condemned appointing dhimmis to such positions on the grounds that this means standing with them, and standing with them means being one of them as God explained and condemned (cf. Qur'an 5:51). Appointing a dhimmi to a wilaya, Ibn al-Qayyim explained, is incompatible with disavowal of the disbelievers and the imperative of making the disbelievers lowly.
As Mun'im Sirry documents, some jurists framed the issue of employing dhimmis in administrative functions in terms of a distinction between 'ministry of execution' and 'ministry of delegation,' in which the former merely carries out the orders of the caliph while the latter can exercise independent judgement on matters. The famous jurist al-Mawardi permitted employing dhimmis in a ministry of execution but regarded employing them in a ministry of delegation as impermissible. Others opposed granting dhimmis either kind of ministry. Sirry's article also provides multiple examples from the Abbasid Caliphate period of employing dhimmis in administrative functions suggesting some responsibility over affairs of Muslims, though there were also instances in which rulers sought to restrict dhimmi roles in high-level administrative positions.
It may be that Muhammad I's move was intended to enforce the idea of keeping Christians out of all high level administrative offices, especially those offices that could entail responsibility over affairs of the Muslims. However, if Jews were still in the palace circles of the amir as suggested by Eulogius' work it seems this enforcement was more politically motivated in relation to the martyrs movement rather than driven by some sort of religious fanaticism.
Also relevant in this context is the role of the exceptor reipublicae, who is mentioned in this work as having been removed from his position (despite his opposition to the martyrs movement) as part of Muhammad I's policies against Christians only to be restored to the palace after he converted to Islam. While it is clear that the exceptor was some kind of secretary, it is debatable whether this was some kind of Christian community representative position in the amir's palace.
[iii] Kenneth Baxter Wolf suggests references to census tax and tribute are simply synonyms for the jizya. In other words, Muhammad I amir was not reviving the jizya on Christians but likely increasing it. I would suggest however that while Eulogius' various references to taxes have the jizya tax in mind foremost (and this was the tribute he denounced as humiliating in the first book of Memoriale Sanctorum), it seems to me likely that in his discussions he is also referring to a land tax called kharaj that was imposed on Christians. It may be that the references to census tax/tribute are to be identified with kharaj. For further discussion of taxes in Muslim-ruled parts of Spain, see 'An Approximate Picture of the Economy of al-Andalus' in the Legacy of Muslim Spain (Part I, Volume 12).
[iv] Ecclesiasticus 10:2.
[v] He is mentioned in chapter fifteen of Book Two of Memoriale Sanctorum, as he spoke against Eulogius in a council of bishops and called for anathematization of the martyrs.
[vi] Original Latin: post bisseno mense. The word bissenus literally means twice times the sixth: i.e. the twelfth. But the precise sense here is variously interpreted. Either it is seen as referring to December 852 CE, or the twelfth month after the bishops' council convened by Abd al-Rahman II. I prefer to go with the latter reading as suggested by Kenneth Baxter Wolf.
[vii] Psalm 100:7.
[viii] Many scholars, based on the information presented and comparison with Arabic sources, identify the exceptor as Qumis bin Antonian, who converted to Islam and attained a high-level administrative position under Muhammad I.
[ix] Under the normal dhimmi restrictions, it is forbidden to build new churches or renovate ones that have fallen into disrepair. So this measure was essentially reimposing a restriction that had not been enforced.
[x] Other sources attest that there were revolts in this period centred on Toledo.
[xi] Suggesting that certain Jews held some high-level administrative functions even as the Christians faced exclusion at this point. The Jewish community as a whole was not subject to persecution in this time because there was no martyrs movement associated with it and was not tied to the provincial revolts mentioned here.
[xii] Proverbs 29:4.
[xiii] Eulogius is referring here to Christian tax collectors working for the state.
[xiv] Ecclesiasticus 36:11.
[xv] Cf. Matthew 18:6 and Luke 12:32.
[xvi] Cf. Proverbs 4:16.
[xvii] Cf. Proverbs 2:14.
[xviii] Cf. Ephesians 4:25.
[xix] Guadix in Andalusia.
[xx] As before, note that the understanding of this word is archaic in the sense of 'way of life' and it is the general understanding of this word in this work.
[xxi] The monastery of Tabanos.
[xxii] i.e. Of Berber origin.
[xxiii] A play on the meaning of the Latin adjective dignus, which means 'worthy.'
[xxiv] Appears to refer to Saint Agatha, who was a Christian martyr from Sicily during the third century CE.
[xxv] Seems to refer to Digna here.
[xxvi] Meaning 'unworthy.'
[xxvii] 14 June 853 CE. We can deduce from this date and the opening words 'on the next day' in this chapter that Fandila was killed on 13 June 853 CE.
[xxviii] 15 June 853 CE.
[xxix] Jeremiah 8:6.
[xxx] i.e. The monastery was shut down and razed as per the persecution policies, likely because it had been an epicentre for the martyrs movement.
[xxxi] Jeremiah 17:16.
[xxxii] Psalm 41:3-4.
[xxxiii] Philippians 1:23.
[xxxiv] Matthew 11:12.
[xxxv] John 8:12 and 11:26.
[xxxvi] 17 September 853 CE.
[xxxvii] Psalm 126:1.
[xxxviii] 19 September 853 CE.
[xxxix] 11 July 854 CE.
[xl] 30 April 855 CE.
[xli] Andalusia.
[xlii] Egabra/Cabra in southern Spain.
[xliii] i.e. In 855 CE. Though the precise date is not specified, the story's placement in the book suggests some time in the period May-December 855 CE.
[xliv] A region in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula.
[xlv] 17 April 856 CE.
[xlvi] i.e. It seems that their bodies were thrown into the river and then flowed out into the sea.
[xlvii] 28 June 856 CE.
[xlviii] Whose martyrdom was detailed in Book One of the Memoriale Sanctorum.
[xlix] Based on this point, we can determine that Adulphus and Ioannes were martyred in the 820s CE.
[l] The monastery of Cuteclara.
[li] The province of Seville.
[lii] Cf. John 8:11.
[liii] Cf. Matthew 14:25 ff. This is the story of when Peter got off the boat, and walked on water towards Jesus, and then began to sink and cried out to Jesus to save him.
[liv] Cf. Luke 23:43.
[lv] Satan.
[lvi] John 11:25.
[lvii] The Guadalquivir.
[lviii] Cf. John 10:9, where Jesus describes himself as the door through which people shall be saved if they enter.
[lix] 19 July 856 CE.
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She also cited a survey that showed Destin falls below the benchmark in attendance of arts events compared with other tourist destinations.
I had the pleasure two weeks ago today of attending the dedication and ribbon cutting ceremony of the Dugas Family Pavilion at the Mattie Kelly Cultural Arts Village in Destin.
It will be home to the MKAF's two signature events: Concerts in the Village, which is going on now, and the Festival of the Arts in October.\
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Glenn Cooper, chairman of the Mattie Kelly Arts Foundation board of directors, served as project manager and as emcee for the dedication. He made sure all of the key people and businesses were introduced and acknowledged, something I'm not going to try to do here.
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Preparing a First Edition AD&D Oriental Adventures Game, Part I
Tuesday , 31, May 2016 Jeffro Tabletop Games 18 Comments
“It’s your job to create events outside the standard sequence of ‘I roll to hit. They roll to hit. I roll to hit.'” — Matt Finch
“Playing the game as written removes an astounding number of the problems people had with AD&D.” — -C
It’s funny how things like this get started. A Dungeon Master doesn’t always get to pick what’s actually getting to going to get played. Someone might mention in passing how this or that ruleset or module is kind of cool. Then it starts coming up in conversation off and on until somebody else declares that they would totally do something like that. Before you know it you’ve got the required critical mass to trigger the sort of planning and coordination it takes to get a game off the ground.
That’s how is with the Eastern style campaign idea that’s currently getting kicked around. Certainly, first edition AD&D was never really at the top of my “want to run” list. I’ve always assumed it’s just too much game for what I’d normally want to do. In spite of how the old Oriental Adventures book as fallen out of fashion over the years, it nevertheless retains a surprising amount of cachet. And as long as I’ve had this volume in my collection, it does gall me that I couldn’t really tell you how its contents would work in actual play.
The biggest strike against it for me has always been the bewildering, incomprehensible, and fantastically Byzantine combat rules. I could never really make myself slog through them all, to tell you the truth. Taking a hard look at the Oriental Adventures rule book the past few days, I was surprised to see that it seems to tacitly repudiate the combat rules of its parent game while assuming that players will be doing something much closer to B/X in practice. It dawned on my that I could actually run the thing. Or large swaths of it, anyway.
At the very least, the summary of the combat sequence there in the Oriental Adventures rules is easy to understand. Using it as a starting point, it’s possible to flesh it out by dropping in portions of the Dungeon Masters Guide that make sense. Anything that seems missing or that is overly confusing can be patched up by interpolating rules of thumb from other, better edited variants of the game that I’ve played incorrectly for decades.
Here’s a summary of what I get doing just that:
SURPRISE: Take each side’s best DEX mod. The side with the higher value gets the difference as a bonus to surprise and as a bonus to avoid surprise. (Note that in some situations, the Iaijutsu proficiency can provide a -1 to the die rolls.) The players are rolling to see if they are surprising their opponents– low is good. If both sides are surprised, the lower result wins. If they are tied, neither side is surprised. Surprised groups may not act during the first combat round.
INITIATIVE: All actions are declared before the dice are rolled. Initiative is by side. Kensai get a +1 bonus. Wu Jen may take a +3 bonus once per day due to their ki ability. There are no other modifiers for this roll.
SEQUENCE: The sequence of play is not explicit. I presume that Moldvay’s “5 M’s” are adequate: Morale, Movement, Missiles, Magic, and Melee. I also presume that spell-casters may not move. If initiative is tied, this sequence is followed for everyone with each sequence step taken as having occurred simultaneously.
MORALE: The AD&D Morale rules are astonishing. The nuance of when to check combined with the many modifiers and the range of results– this is some serious stuff here. The most surprising thing about it? It’s checked on an individual basis by all hirelings and on a group basis by monster types!! The number of modifiers for henchmen are incredible, but a base of %50 combined with subtraction of the PC’s Charisma-based loyalty bonus should be sufficient for people that want to keep things moving. (Any penalties for extraordinary PC behaviour can be calculated between sessions.)
REACTIONS: Note that all other things being equal, a character with Charisma 18 will not ever receive a hostile or violently hostile reaction. A party with initiative thus has a strong incentive to parley. Of course, a DM will apply these rules with common sense. But the modifiers for bribes, racial preferences, and alignment factors from the henchmen section are in force here, so the DM is not completely on his own for this. Also note that the situation modifiers indicate that the party can parley after battle has been enjoined and gain significant reaction bonuses by a sufficient show of force.
You know, James Maliszewski said that most people “ignored weapon proficiencies, segment-based combat rounds, grappling/pummeling/overbearing, helmet rules, and a host of other distinctive elements of AD&D” back in the day. At this point, I have to wonder how much of of even the core combat sequence got used.
Or course, it’s kind of a running gag in the game blog scene that if you consult Gygax’s AD&D books for something, you always always ALWAYS end up stumbling across something that you’ve never seen before, so I expect this sort of thing, really. But it still kind of blows my mind!! I mean… when you think of all the complaints that have ever been levelled at old school D&D combat over the years, it’s just plain gobsmacking to think that there was plenty in the books that directly addressed so many of the commonly perceived issues with the game.
From Forum, Dragon #151.
But there it is. The morale and reaction rules not only shorten the time it takes to resolve combat by having the monsters run away when it’s clear they’re outmatched… but they actually include a means to get the two sides talking and negotiating even after the trading of blows has ensued! And in a clash between two rival gangs, a combination of casualties and desertions can trigger a death spiral that rapidly causes an entire line of fighting men to disintegrate!
Given that role-playing originally grew out of miniatures wargames, it shouldn’t be that surprising to come across this sort of thing in one of Gygax’s books. Still, it’s hard to believe that this was right there all this time. (Granted, I was forbidden from looking inside the DM’s guide back when it ruled the roost. I’m naturally going to be somewhat late to the party….) While I tend to prefer the leaner, meaner rules of the Moldvay Basic set to the imposing tomes of AD&D, I have to admit that this is something I could stand to have in my game. Certainly, this sort of accurate modelling of a fighting force’s cohesiveness is not something I would think incorporate into a game where I am simply being as “imaginative” as possible!
Sky says:
I would be very curious to read how you end up running those games. And I mean the minutiae. I had the AD&D Player’s Guide and made a few characters and played a handful of games with my young friends back in the day. They were total crap, we were too young/stupid to do it right. I remember the rules being very intimidating, especially in comparison to my red box. I left gaming and came back in time for the tail end of 3.5. Always I wondered what AD&D was really like.
Anyone else hear the Comic Book Guy’s voice when you read the Dragon Forum piece? I can’t be alone.
Lastly, do people consider 2nd edition AD&D grist for the OSR mill? I am used to thinking about B/X, OD&D, BECMI, but AD&D is part of the whole thing too right? What about 3rd and 3.5 represents a dividing line between old school and new school? Who has two thumbs and is late to the discussion, THIS GUY!
Jeffro says:
2e is not always implied to be “classic D&D” like the others, but people do occasionally speak of “TSR D&D” to explicitly keep it on the proper side of the old school / new school debate.
The main problem with 3e and later is that combat takes so long it encourages linear adventure designs. The OSR was to some extent a compensation for the lack of significant choice in mainstream role-playing that resulted from this.
That makes a lot of sense. I had fun with 3.5 but one encounter would dominate the whole evening. People talk about combat heavy vs dialogue/story heavy games, but I haven’t read much about exploring. I wanted to explore, the tomb, the hex map, whatever. Hard to do that when 3/4’s of the game is spent playing a tactical miniatures game.
cirsova says:
He’s focusing on minis wargames these days, but Stelios V. Perdios had a pretty good 2e OSR blog called D20 Dark Ages.
http://d20darkages.blogspot.com/
B/X played strictly by the book produces a game that emphasizes the exploration and “push your luck” elements over the miniatures gaming. The mega-dungeon– which was not publishable until recently– gives players control over the story due to there always being several adventuring options available at any given moment. (And that’s without layering in a hex-crawl.) The trend of the past decade or so of minimizing consequences undercuts this sort of thing.
Hooc Ott says:
“The mega-dungeon– which was not publishable until recently”
What is “the mega-dungeon”?
Why was it not publishable?
The old modules role-players are more familiar with are not representative of how OD&D/AD&D was meant to be played. They are more like worked examples that demonstrate how to do a *little bit* of what was required to run a game. Dwimmermount and Stonehell dungeon are closer to what Gygax actually ran, but the question of how to publish something like that was not conceivable in the seventies. Or perhaps the need to get product out rapidly meant that first compromises were made, then expectations shifted in the 80’s as to what even the game was supposed to be about. At any rate, there are several mega-dungeons for classic D&D on the market now, so this issue has been well addressed in recent years.
I do somewhat wonder at what point a dungeon goes from being just a dungeon to a mega-dungeon.
B4 feels a lot like a miniature mega-dungeon, with its factions and long-play goals, but it’s still relatively cramped in terms of its geography. The closest one could come, i suppose, via the old modules would be by cramming dungeons inside each other. I suppose you could stick B4 at the bottom of Porttown or Skull Mountain, and stick B1 and B3 in the lower caves around the City below the Pyramid, and have a tunnel at the very bottom that leads to the hollow interior earth and put X1 there.
That might be one of those unanswerable questions there.
I run a game at a public library. We have a core of regulars and a lot of people dropping in and out. I wanted some cohesion and some ongoing narrative so I wrote up a rather extreme mega dungeon. It is a floating structure, an amalgam of various castles and libraries and buildings mushed together. A sole portal allows entry. Upon entering the party is transported to a random level. Some levels are minimalist, like row upon row of library shelves stuck in the middle of the desert, attended by one solitary gnome, armed with a shovel to keep the dunes at bay. Other levels are more traditional. I have about thirteen levels sketched out and of course, the portal allows me to wing it, make new levels at home or even on the fly. Depending on the party going through I may seed more narrative elements. People get to see some wild stuff and roll some dice. Its a good time.
I’m told that making your own and steadily developing it in response to actual play is the soul of “real” D&D. I’m not much of a Do-It-Yourself guy, but I’ve paid attention to this thread of gaming discussion. I think there’s something to it.
A public game is hard because you don’t know who is going to show up. We get some players with some legitimate difficulties in social settings, not awkward gamers, I mean people that have a state appointed handler. I rule the table with a much firmer hand than is necessary in most games, but it is done to make sure everyone gets to play, everyone gets to have fun, and it works. Oddly though, the wild west atmosphere frees me up to work on the thing, experiment, and really react to the players and riff off what they are wanting. The average home game you are playing with people you’ve known for years and ironically I think is a harder crowd. With my library game I am out there dancing, sweating, trying to keep this thing from running into a ditch. Thanks to the players it works. People show up desperate to play. I get away with a lot, probably more than I could with my jaded friends. Not that I wouldn’t love to sit down with my jaded friends and play if adulthood wasn’t constantly in the way.
This – when I ran Tower of Zenopus for a library group, I think there was only one or two people who made it to all four of the scheduled scessions.
How long does the library give you for your game? I got stuck with a 1.5 hour slot, but we got a remarkable amount accomplished considering.
Ooh sometime you will have to tell me all about that, is it on your blog? We are blessed with a full three hours. I have it starting at 5, a soft start really, we get everybody seated and get really going around 5:30 usually. We have enough people coming that we run three tables. The core group that makes every session is about 10 people and then we usually get another 10 or 12, a mix of new faces and people that have been to a couple.
Wow, that sounds awesome. I don’t know if the program last year was not successful enough to do it again or if they didn’t like that I asked for better signage if we were to be stuck in a conference room behind doors marked “Employees Only”, but I have not heard back from anyone about doing it again this year. I got paid like 25 bucks to do it, though, so I can add “Professional DM” to my resume.
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There has been a lot of analysis of the Oriental Adventures hardcover which didn’t get much playtesting before it was released. Are you planning to run it by the book or do you intend to fix some of the disparities found in the rules. In particular some spells are lackluster for their level and the whole martial arts subsystem, while nifty, has some super-optimal builds.
The book is also more written for social and political themes and conflicts with court skills and family and birthright tables. The birthright table is another interesting subystem, the family table less so. The book implies you are running a political game with PCs having family responsibilities and a daimyo or other superior they work for as part of an ordered society. Rather than as mercenaries or adventurer outsiders who work as free agents.
Imagine THE BROKEN SWORD as the starting point. The birth of Christ has initiated the crumbling of Western faerie, but no missionaries or explorers have set foot in the East. Spirit beings are ubiquitous there as are eastern style goblins, ogres, and dragons.
The question is not so much how the players fit into society. It’s how much of the sprawling AD&D cosmology applies to the setting.
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Now beware of Irma cars
Add certain Southeast U.S. counties affected this month by Hurricane Irma to the list of areas under scrutiny by the Illinois secretary of state’s office for flood-damaged vehicles. That comes on the heels of Hurricane Harvey areas a few weeks ago.
The Illinois secretary of state on Sept. 10 began closely monitoring vehicle title applications submitted for vehicles registered in the Hurricane Irma-affected counties in regions of Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina. The vehicles will receive a flood title designation unless the title application is accompanied by a natural disaster disclosure statement signed by the previous owner declaring that the vehicle was not in a natural disaster area or was not damaged. The scrutiny will continue for one year.
Close examination will continue for vehicles registered in Harvey portions of Texas and Louisiana until Sept, 6, 2018. For Irma areas, such scrutiny examination will lapse Sept. 10, 2018.
"We are taking every step possible to ensure that flood-damaged vehicles from the recent major hurricanes do not receive clean titles in Illinois," Secretary of State Jesse White said. "In addition to the extra attention these vehicles receive from my office, we are providing a link on our website to the National Insurance Crime Bureau’s database of known hurricane-damaged vehicles that consumers can check themselves."
For Hurricane Matthew, which struck the Southeast about a year ago in some of the same counties, a similar protocol remains in effect through Oct. 2 because they were declared disaster areas after flooding and storm damage.
Take steps in wake of Equifax breach
Following the recent breach of Equifax security, dealerships likely are encountering customer questions about the security of their financial information, and the prospects of credit freezes and fraud alerts on credit reports.
The credit-reporting agency this month acknowledged a cybersecurity incident where criminals exploited a website application vulnerability to gain access to certain files, potentially impacting about 143 million U.S. consumers, including about 5.4 million Illinoisans.
Equifax publicly disclosed the data breach Sept. 7, saying hackers accessed data including Social Security numbers, birth dates and addresses and, for 209,000 additional consumers, credit card numbers. According to Equifax, that announcement came nearly six weeks after it had discovered the breach.
"Given the number of people affected and the sensitive type of information exposed, dealers should understand the basics of the breach and what it means for their customers," Mark Scarpelli, chairman of the National Automobile Dealers Association, said in a statement.
"If dealership personnel do get questions," he added, "it is important to first explain that the reported breach occurred at Equifax, and does not involve the dealership, data stored at the dealership, or dealership processes."
Scarpelli said dealers should review guidance provided by the Federal Trade Commission regarding the Equifax matter. The guidance can help F&I personnel who spot a fraud alert or encounter a frozen credit report.
What if dealership personnel do see a fraud alert or encounter a "frozen" credit report? Dealership personnel should review the FTC document entitled Fraud alerts vs. credit freezes: FTC FAQs that provides further information about fraud alerts and credit freezes.
Basically, if a customer’s credit is "frozen" then that customer’s credit report generally cannot be viewed until the customer takes steps to "unfreeze" their credit. They will be assigned a PIN they must use (and may forget), and it may include a fee that the customer must pay (both to place, and to temporarily "lift" the freeze), and could include a lead time that could affect a financing transaction. If there is a fraud alert on the credit report, then the dealership must take certain additional steps to verify the identity of the applicant (generally calling a phone number that the consumer provided at the time they placed the fraud alert and speaking with the consumer) before the credit process can be finalized.
Dealers and their employees should be aware that there already are scammers trying to take further advantage of the Equifax breach by calling consumers and trying to obtain personal information through false pretenses.
The situation provides a good reminder for dealers to revisit their Red Flags program to ensure that they are taking the required steps to detect and prevent scammers from opening a line of credit using someone else’s information.
Equifax set up a website, www.equifaxsecurity2017.com, where consumers could determine whether their data were potentially exposed.
Unionized dealerships, technicians reach deal on 4-year pact
About 130 area dealers with unionized technicians reached a deal on a four-year contract Sept. 17, nearly seven weeks after the workers put down their tools and picked up picket signs.
Under the final deal, journeymen technicians will receive $1 hourly increases in base pay in each of the first three years of the contract ($33.30/$34.30/$35.30), then a $1.50 raise in the fourth year. Base pay hours increase from 34 hours under the expired contract to 35 for the first three years and to 36 hours in the final year. Base pay hours can be reduced if certain metrics are not met. Also, a 60-hour productivity bonus was established.
The deal also shortens the semi-skilled workers’ apprenticeship scale from 10 years to five years.
The Lube Rack Technician position was eliminated. Semi-Skilled Technicians now start at $13.50 an hour and increase to $14.50 after 12 months. Sixty-cent annual increases would follow. Part-time Express Team Technicians now start at $10.25 an hour. To comply with any minimum wage legislation, pay would increase to minimum wage if a worker’s pay is below it.
For a summary of the new collective bargaining agreement, call the CATA's Pam Grace at (630) 495-2282.
New law forces Chicago dealers to lock keys, license plates
The Chicago City Council on Sept. 13 passed legislation requiring the city’s car dealers to lock up keys and license plates after business hours. Airport rental car agencies are exempt from the measure.
The new ordinance requires all keys maintained by Chicago car dealers to be "placed in a secure lock-box inside the salesroom or rental building at all times" when the facility is not open for business.
Special dealer plates issued by the Illinois secretary of state’s office must be attached to vehicles by "tamper-resistant security screws" or placed in a secure lock-box inside the salesroom when the facility is closed.
The Chicago Police Department’s Major Auto Theft Investigative Unit pushed for a mandate covering car dealers and rental car agencies to stop an epidemic of vehicle thefts in recent months. The new law does not address incidents of car thefts during business hours, some of which happened ina a rash in the last year.
The rental car industry in August demanded a carve-out for airport operations "due to the volume of cars" rented and dropped off by passengers at O’Hare and Midway airports. The appeal before a city council committee was made by attorney John Daley, son of Cook County Commissioner John Daley and nephew of former Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley.
"The act of removing the keys and plates and giving them back to customers will hinder the experience at the airport and inconvenience customers," Daley said.
Instead of locking up the keys and plates, airport rental car agencies will be required to hold quarterly meetings with Chicago Police to review their security plans and address police concerns.
CATA names new marketing manager
Jim OBrill joined the Chicago Automobile Trade Association Sept. 19 as the CATA’s new marketing director.
He will oversee marketing for the nation’s largest auto show and serve as the primary contact for show sponsors. He also will help with association-related marketing and advertising efforts and work closely with CATA members.
"We’re thrilled to have Jim join the CATA to collaborate with our established team on marketing and sponsorship efforts," said David Sloan, president of the CATA and general manager of the Chicago Auto Show.
"We constantly strive to offer a superior experience to auto show attendees, exhibitors, sponsors and association members and, with Jim’s strong background, we look forward to the innovative thinking and fresh ideas that he most certainly will bring to the table."
OBrill’s 15-plus years of experience include everything from banking to agency work to radio promotions. Most recently, he was a senior account manager at Mosaic North America, which is a leader in producing consumer events and retail visits that help brands connect with consumers in non-traditional ways. Previously, he was a sales promotion manager for Hubbard Broadcasting, which owns 43 radio stations, including WDRV-FM in Chicago.
OBrill can be reached at jobrill@drivechicago.com and (630) 424-6085.
CATA Chairman's Column, September 2017
As dealers, most of us are acutely aware of the vital role we play within our communities, whether that’s through employment, service or charitable support. We’re often among the first to raise a hand to help a neighbor in need, in part because we know it’s mutually beneficial for the long-term success of our communities.
However, dealers seldom receive the recognition they deserve for their efforts. The CATA offers a variety of programs that build upon the charitable efforts of its dealer members and help raise awareness.
The CATA created Chicagoland Dealers Care in 2008 to highlight dealers’ contributions to charities and match their donation, up to $1,500 per charity. Since the program’s inception, the CATA has donated $100,000 to charities brought forth by dealers.
In 2013, the CATA partnered with the USO of Illinois on an initiative named Barbecue for the Troops. The program continues to grow each year in terms of dealership events (there were 100 in 2017!) and funds raised. Since the start of the program, dealerships have raised nearly $600,000 for local troops.
Throughout the summer-long campaign, the CATA coordinates a market-wide advertising, public relations and social media initiative in an effort to secure positive publicity for the dealers.
Additionally, since 1992, the association has raised nearly $48 million for significant Chicago-area charities during the annual First Look for Charity black-tie event, held the evening before the Chicago Auto Show opens to the public.
The CATA also supports ancillary causes; for example, the association made a donation to help Illinois flood victims this past spring and gave $30,000 to assist in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey.
No good deed is too small. If your dealership is giving back to a local charity or cause in some way, whether it’s an investment of finances or time, let the CATA know. Your charity may qualify for a match donation through the association’s Chicagoland Dealers Care program.
Please also consider hosting a Barbecue for the Troops at your dealership next July. Reach out to Jennifer Morand, the CATA’s Director of PR and Social Media, with questions or to learn more: (630) 424-6084 or jmorand@drivechicago.com.
I have a few extra tips for the CATA’s more than 400 dealer members to get the word out about all the good that they do for local charities: Leverage ad agency and media advertising partnerships, purchase social media advertising and contact your local chamber of commerce to set up employee meetings to rally support for your charity. It’s important to get the word out that your dealership is one of the pillars of your community!
Ray Scarpelli Jr.
Nation's dealers take agenda to Washington
Nearly 500 dealers and state and metro automotive trade association executives traveled to Washington, D.C., Sept. 12-13 for the National Automobile Dealers Association’s annual two-day Washington Conference. The conference featured prominent speakers and a reception to mark the NADA’s 100th anniversary.
First on the dealers’ agenda during Hill meetings was the preservation of state vehicle licensing and franchise laws in an upcoming Senate self-driving cars bill. As Congress considers legislation to advance self-driving vehicles, any legislation must ensure that the states’ traditional role of regulating motor vehicle commerce is preserved, the dealers said.
With Congress focusing on tax reform, dealers told members of Congress their tax reform priorities. Dealers stressed that overall changes to the tax code should not negatively impact small business dealerships. Dealers support a tax reform bill that includes eliminating the estate tax, treating pass-through entities fairly, and maintaining the last in, first out inventory accounting method nicknamed LIFO. Dealers also outlined their opposition to eliminating or limiting interest deductibility and limiting advertising deductibility.
The dealers voiced their opposition to overbroad recall bills (Senate Bill 1634 / House Resolution 3449) that would prohibit the sale or wholesale of any used car under open recall by a dealer. They said the bills would hurt customers by lowering their trade-in value and diminishing recall completion rates as customers turn to private sales rather than trading in their used car in at a dealer.
In the immediate aftermath of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, attendance for the Washington Conference remained solid, and it gave the NADA an opportunity to highlight its Emergency Relief Fund which continues to provide financial assistance to dealership employees in those disaster-affected areas.
Some states pull plug on EV station costs
Faced with deadlines to increase the number of electric vehicles on the road, states are being asked to decide whether utility companies can build electric vehicle charging stations — and pass on the cost to their customers.
Building more charging stations could help alleviate "range anxiety," the fear of running out of charge with no station in sight, and therefore stimulate sales of the clean-air-friendly cars. But in some states, officials say that letting the utility industry build more stations would force all electricity consumers to pay for a service that only a few, relatively affluent, people will use.
In California, home to nearly half the electric vehicles, or EVs, now on U.S. roads, the Public Utilities Commission last year approved plans for three of the state’s largest utilities to build more than 12,500 charging stations at workplaces, apartment complexes and public locations for about $200 million.
But this year, Michigan, Missouri and Kansas all have slapped down utilities’ requests to build charging stations with customers’ money. "Let the private sector invest in the EV market, rather than have ratepayers finance the speculative venture," the Kansas Corporation Commission ruled.
The different outcomes reflect a broader debate about whether charging stations need to be built to create a market for electric cars, or vice versa, and who should pay for them.
More than a half million electric vehicles are on the road in the U.S., with the most in California, Georgia and Washington, according to data from ChargePoint, a company that builds and operates charging stations. Electric vehicles use some 44,000 public vehicle charging outlets across the nation, nearly a third of them in California.
Increasing the number of charging stations is especially urgent in the states that in 2013 joined California in promising to put 3.3 million zero-emission vehicles, a sixfold increase over current levels, on the road by 2025: Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont.
Georgia has utility-built charging stations. In North Carolina, 200 charging stations are being subsidized by Duke Energy as part of a 2016 settlement with the EPA for clean-air violations. In Kentucky, utilities are building charging stations for which only customers who use them will foot the bill.
Utilities "all want to eat the oil industry’s lunch," said Max Baumhefner of the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental group that supports utilities putting up more electric vehicle charging stations. "So we’re happy to show them the way to the buffet."
FTC revises fuel economy advertising guide
The Federal Trade Commission’s latest Guide Concerning Fuel Economy Advertising for New Automobiles, which takes effect Oct. 19, governs fuel economy advertising for new light-duty automobiles required to have fuel economy labels.
The revised Guide reflects changes made in 2011 by the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to their labelling mandates and guidance once provided in a separate FTC Alternate Fuel Labelling Guide. That labeling guide was withdrawn in 2013.
According to the revised Guide, "it is deceptive to misrepresent, directly or by implication, the fuel economy or driving range of an automobile and makes suggestions as to how to advertise fuel economy information without being deceptive."
The NADA will issue an updated version of its Driven guide on fuel economy advertising. Until then, direct questions to NADA Regulatory Affairs at regulatoryaffairs@nada.org or (703) 821-7040.
First Look for Charity to feature Expedition, Mustang
The coming Chicago Auto Show’s benevolent event will award two prize vehicles, one of which — the 2018 Ford Expedition — is vying for the next North American Truck of the Year award. First Look for Charity also will give away at 2018 Ford Mustang.
Semifinalists for the annual award, the most sought-after and respected honors bestowed upon auto manufacturers, were announced Sept. 15. The award is broken into three categories: cars, utility vehicles, and light- and medium-duty trucks. Over the 25-year history of the awards, the utility vehicle category was added due to the significant percentage of retail units sold.
"It was only fair to expand to three groups," said Lauren Fix, secretary-treasurer of the 60-member jury of print and broadcast journalists that bestow the award. "Nearly two-thirds of retail sales now are in the SUV/CUV category, so we adapted to the times."
The award winners will be announced in January at the North American International Auto Show in January.
Tickets to First Look for Charity, at $275 each, go on sale Oct. 1. The event benefits 18 area nonprofits.
Latest Dealer Confidence Index edges up
Dealers say the auto market is strong and they expect it to remain so in the near term, but their profitability is constrained by market conditions and competition, according to the latest Cox Automotive Dealer Sentiment Index, released Sept. 18.
The Sentiment Index, which is the equivalent of a consumer confidence index, shows how U.S. dealers feel about the current automotive market and prospects for the next 90 days. It also identifies which factors are most significant in driving dealers’ optimism or pessimism, as well as variations by region.
Current overall sentiment scored 45 in the third quarter, which means that more dealers felt that market conditions were currently weak relative to those who felt that market conditions were strong.
Pricing pressure, increasing costs of doing business, declining profits, slow customer traffic and a lack of inventory, especially for independent dealers, are the factors that drive dealers to be less positive about the current market.
Dealers were more positive about the coming three months. The index score of 52 indicates more dealers expected conditions to be strong in the future, compared to those who think conditions will be weak.
The Q3 results were based on 1,033 online dealer respondents from July 31 to August 7, 2017. The Q2 data for reference was collected April 24 to May 1. The Cox Automotive Dealer Sentiment Index is a new examination by Cox Automotive; this is the first published report. The next issue of the quarterly report will be released in December.
Dealer responses were weighted by dealership type and volume of sales to be representative of the national dealer population.
Patent filings point to car industry's future
Pressured to keep up with Silicon Valley companies working on autonomous –car technology and ride sharing, automakers have sharply boosted their U.S. patent filings over the past five years.
In 2016, 10 of the world’s largest car makers submitted 9,700 patent applications, up 110 percent from 2012, according to consulting firm Oliver Wyman.
"The pressure is on us to invent before the Valley does," said Bill Coughlin, chief executive of Ford Global Technologies, which handles Ford’s patent and copyrights. "The last thing we want is to be a fast follower."
A growing number of filings seem straight out of science fiction, covering inventions intended to help people pay less attention to the road when they drive—or while they aren’t actually driving at all.
Ford seeks a patent for a drone system that would locate passengers who call a self-driving robo-taxi, while another Ford filing, envisioning self-driving cars with conference-room-style seating, seeks to patent a special air bag that will fit into a center table to protect the occupants facing it.
For its part, BMW wants to patent a system that would allow an autonomous vehicle to communicate with pedestrians or human drivers in other vehicles, through visual signs, beeps or even speech.
Hyundai, meanwhile, seeks to protect a device that would allow a driver to exit from the car and then push a button to park it. Toyota is looking to patent a technology that makes certain car parts, such as door pillars, appear to be see-through.
Patent holders have exclusive rights on an invention for as long as two decades after the grant date, an important weapon for vehicle companies looking for a technological edge in an evolving industry. First-movers often enjoy benefits, such as revenue from licensing their creations to others. Technology from Toyota’s groundbreaking Prius was licensed by Ford, for instance.
Juergen Reiner, a partner at Oliver Wyman, said car companies have an edge in creating automotive hardware, but will struggle to catch up on the software front. Unlike Silicon Valley companies, traditional vehicle makers face huge overhead and capital requirements for their factories and product lines.
"It’s not a well-balanced battle," Reiner said. "They need to develop cars and have other distractions."
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Love Works
San Francisco Poet Laureate Series No. 2
Janice Mirikitani
This impressive collection brings together Mirikitani's strongest poems on a diversity of subjects: the incarceration of Japanese-Americans during World War II, the fragility and challenges of family relationships, and the quest by people at the...
Love is No Stone on the Moon
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Cool Gray City of Love brings together an exuberant combination of personal insight, deeply researched history, in-depth reporting, and lyrical prose to create an unparalleled portrait of San Francisco. Each of its 49 chapters explores a specific site or intersection in the city, from the mighty Golden Gate Bridge to the raunchy Tenderloin...
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The Missa Solemnis arguably is the work through which Ludwig van Beethoven expressed his deepest personal feelings. In this article, we consider why he chose a Mass for this purpose despite echewing formal religious observance, his earlier religious works, his shameful attempts to market it, the premiere concert, some of the performance challenges it presents, its extraordinary structure, and some of the most significant recordings. Finally, we acknowledge and suggest some sources for further information.
Was he or wasn’t he? (Religious, that is.) One of the most intriguing questions raised by Ludwig van Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis is the extent to which it reflects the composer’s own religious feelings. On the one hand, he insisted that his nephew receive religious instruction and took the last sacrament himself (although, on the verge of death, he may have been too weak to protest). Yet biographers generally consider him a non-observant Catholic who was fascinated by other religions – they note that he had Persian aphorisms framed on his wall, leaned toward pantheism and felt no need for explanation by intermediaries of the unfathomable mysteries of life. Indeed, Beethoven shunned ritual and was in touch with Johann Michael Sailer, a theologian who rejected mechanical observance in favor of an individual believer’s interior experience of spirituality, a philosophy which resonated with Beethoven’s personal Enlightenment-derived conviction in freedom and reason.
So why did Beethoven write a Mass? The ostensible reason was to honor Rudolph, the Archduke of Austria, who was to be invested as Archbishop in March 1820. Rudolph not only was Beethoven’s foremost patron, but a fine pianist and a personal friend, to whom Beethoven already had dedicated many of his greatest and most visionary works, including the “Hammerklavier” Piano Sonata, the “Archduke” Trio and the last two Piano Concertos; indeed, Beethoven’s tender 1810 Piano Sonata # 26 (“Farewell”) is thought to express his personal feelings when Rudolph was forced to move away from Vienna. Upon learning of Rudolph’s elevation in June 1819, Beethoven had written: “The day on which a High Mass composed by me will be performed during the ceremonies solemnized for your Imperial Highness will be the most glorious day of my life; and God will enlighten me so that my poor talents may contribute to the glorification of that solemn day.” Unlike most obsequious toadying to nobility of the time, Beethoven actually might have meant this. (But Maynard Solomon suggests that Beethoven may also have had an ulterior motive – he hoped to be appointed as the new archbishop’s kappelmeister.)
But there were plenty of other ways Beethoven could have honored Rudolph, and so his motivation may have run deeper. Thus, Willy Hess characterized the Missa Solemnis as “an avalanche released by a speck of dust.” Indeed, Hess noted that its use for its original liturgical purpose would have required long interruptions between each section in order to insert long passages of dry ceremony that would have ruined its organic unity and impaired its overall artistic impact. Rather, William Mann suggests that Beethoven seized upon the text not as dogma but as a means of questioning, confirming and enlarging the literal meaning in order to represent the struggle between the immensity of God and the inadequacy of mankind. Andrew Huth asserts that Beethoven wholeheartedly accepted the orthodox Catholic view of the Mass as a celebration of man and God coming together through prayer and faith. Thus, Mann observes, it served as an ideal vehicle to resolve Beethoven’s own crisis of faith and to assert his own religious philosophy, yet in a form that was familiar to most of the Western world and thus would be accessible to listeners. In that light, Solomon notes that Beethoven later offered his publisher a German language version to facilitate performance in Protestant communities.
Beethoven writing the Missa Solemnis
(1819 oil painting by Joseph Carl Stieler)
Beethoven invested much of himself in the Missa Solemnis. As preparation, he immersed himself in an intensive study of religious music of the past, from monastic chants to Handel’s Messiah (he incorporated the melody of “And He Shall Reign” into his Dona nobis pacem) and the Mozart Requiem, portions of which he copied out. Indeed, as Solomon notes, the result was an amalgam of styles, rooted in older traditions but empowered with the grandeur of the symphony. Anton Schindler, Beethoven’s biographer and assistant, recalled that one day in August 1819 he arrived at Beethoven’s lodgings around 4 PM: “From behind the closed door of one of the parlors we could hear the master working on the fugue of the Credo, singing, yelling, stomping his feet. … The door opened and Beethoven stood before us, his features distorted to the point of inspiring terror.” As William Drabkin notes, with the sole exception of his opera Fidelio, not only was this the largest and longest work Beethoven ever wrote, but it took him far longer to produce than any other. Indeed, Beethoven missed his deadline – by three years, as it was not finished until March 1823, when he presented it to Rudolph on the third anniversary of the installation ceremony.
George Marek observed that Beethoven, who was in constant need of funds, could have earned more by writing many smaller works but instead kept polishing this one. Alexander Wheelock Thayer quipped that the Missa Solemnis was “several times completed but never complete so long as it was within reach.” He elaborated: “The Mass is almost ready for delivery when he is in financial extremities; but when he has helped himself with loans or the collection of advances or the sale of old manuscripts or potboilers, his insatiable desire to revise, emend and improve his great work takes possession of him, and the vast amount of reworking and recopying thus pushes its ultimate completion into the future and precipitates yet another period of distress.” Clearly, the Missa Solemnis meant a lot to Beethoven. Indeed, he wrote over the opening: “Von Herzen – möge es wieder – zu Herzen gehn!” (“From the heart – may it return to the heart!”) – although only on the copy presented to Rudolph, and so it may have been a personal message for his friend rather than a dedication intended for humanity at large.
The Missa Solemnis was not Beethoven’s first religious work, although it certainly was the one in which he expressed himself most fully. In 1803 he had written an oratorio, Christus am Ölburg (Christ on the Mount of Olives), published as his Op. 85 after an 1811 revision. Its subject must have had particular personal appeal as a catharsis following the crisis of Beethoven's incurable deafness and resultant depression. Indeed, Martin Cooper notes that it was Beethoven's first completed work after his wrenching and soul-baring Heilingenstadt Testament and that, by focusing on Christ’s agony in the Garden of Gethsemane, Beethoven identified with Christ’s suffering, terror and isolation while still desiring goodness and a love of mankind. Beethoven later claimed to have written Christus in a fortnight amid distractions, and the general consensus is that it is competent but formulaic and barely inspired. Thus Lewis Lockwood cites its “inconsistent quality … which ranges from routine recitatives and reasonably effective arias … to bombastic choral writing.” In any event, Christus clearly shows that Beethoven was not afraid to inject emotion into his religious writing, even if this work was as much a personal statement as a sacred one.
The other predecessor was Beethoven's 1807 Mass in C, Op. 86, which Prince Esterházy commissioned as the next annual Mass in memory of his wife following the six which Haydn had composed for him. While Beethoven sought to depart from the model of his illustrious predecessor, to modern ears his work sounds much like respectful emulation of the established Viennese style, even though it is more somber and with less of Haydn's penchant toward four-square formality, propulsive momentum and an overall upbeat aura. Unfortunately, the only critic who really counted at the time was the Prince himself, who called it “unbearably ridiculous and detestable” and claimed to be “angry and mortified.” Needless to say, he turned elsewhere for future commissions, and Beethoven turned his attention to secular work.
For those of us who revere Beethoven as the supreme genius of Western music, one of the most troubling aspects of the Missa Solemnis is its marketing. As William Drabkin rather gingerly puts it: “The steps he took to sell the work … do not reveal the composer in the best light as a human being.” Marek is more blunt: to him, the negotiations for publication “represent one of the least credible moves of Beethoven’s life. Indeed, not to mince words, he behaved shockingly.” To summarize a long and sordid story, which Marek recounts in grueling detail, Beethoven sold the exclusive rights to each of seven publishers, only to invent excuses, retract accepted offers, promise other non-existent works, and play them off against each other with fictitious competing bids, all the while professing “to know nothing of business affairs” (as he wrote to one publisher) and accusing another of “playing a Jewish trick.” At the same time, he privately sold ten prepublication copies to royal patrons, including the kings of France, Prussia, Saxony and Denmark and the Czar of Russia. (The last turned out to be propitious, as it led to the only complete performance during Beethoven’s life.) To the extent that this behavior can be defended, it may stem from the fact that Beethoven considered this work to be his very best and thus felt a need for tangible validation of its value.
Unfortunately, the rest of the world came to share Beethoven’s view only belatedly.
Beethoven's autograph of mm 396-391 of the Agnus Dei
– no wonder the copyists had trouble reading his "appalling" notation
Although it now appears that the Missa Solemnis received its premiere on March 24, 1824 in St. Petersburg as a charity concert for the benefit of widows of former orchestra members (although the massive Credo movement may have been omitted), the first full European performance did not occur until three years after Beethoven’s death (and then in Bohemia). Beethoven’s own Vienna raised severe barriers – Church authorities forbade the presentation of a solemn Mass in a public theatre, and the work was far too long and overpowering to be integrated into a genuine religious service. The partial premiere, and the only performance Beethoven ever attended, was of three movements (the Kyrie, Credo and Agnus Dei) which, to counter Church objections, were sung in German translation and billed as “Three Grand Hymns.” This was the same May 7, 1824 concert (Beethoven's last) at which the world first heard his Ninth Symphony.
Thankfully, Beethoven’s profound deafness spared him from actually hearing the performance, which must have been awful – he had not written out some of the instrumental parts, the copyists had great trouble reading his “appalling” notation, he was unable to make the kinds of adjustments that invariably emerge when preparing a first performance, rehearsal time was woefully insufficient for over two hours of new and thorny music, and the singers protested the difficulty of their parts. (Reportedly, since Beethoven wouldn’t know the difference, they just skipped the hard passages.) Schindler reported the concert to have been a great success, as did an empathetic report in the Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung: “The impact was indescribably marvelous and strong. [The Missa Solemnis] was acclaimed with enthusiastic shouts raised to the master from overflowing hearts, for his inexhaustible genius had opened up a new world to us, and unveiled never-heard, never-suspected magical secrets of divine music.” But others may have been less enthused – Joseph Carl Rosenbaum (a friend of Haydn, now best known for having stolen and kept that composer’s skull) wrote in his diary: “… lovely but tedious – not very full. Many boxes empty, no one from the Court. For all the large forces, little effect. B’s disciples clamoured, most of the audience stayed quiet, many did not wait for the end.” At a repeat performance on May 23, only the Kyrie was given. By the time the score was engraved Beethoven was too ill to correct the proofs, and the Missa Solemnis was issued only after his death. From the outset, the score generated debate over possible errors, the most crucial involving whether Beethoven really meant his soloists to be overwhelmed by the full orchestra in the Pleni and Osanna sections of the Sanctus, or whether he had intended the full chorus to sing but to save space had written out the choral parts on the same staves he had previously assigned to the soloists. (Nearly all conductors use the chorus.)
Although the Missa Solemnis has now taken its secure place among Beethoven’s supreme masterworks,
Soprano part from the Credo, mm 15-24 — OUCH!!
it exerted little influence on other composers for a simple reason – it was performed so infrequently that few were able to hear it. The expense of assembling and rehearsing a large orchestra, soloists and chorus is often blamed, even though that never hindered the popularity of his equally massive and challenging Ninth Symphony. Rather, the major problem is the extreme difficulty of the score. The July 1882 Musical Times pronounced: “The work is impossible. No human lungs can endure the strain imposed by it.” The choral sopranos, especially, are called upon to sustain loud notes at the very top of their range for lengths that would surpass the stamina of many soloists. Thus beginning at bar 513 of the Gloria they are to hold a forte high A for about five seconds and at measure 21 of the Credo they are to sustain a fortissimo high B-flat for seven. Instrumental issues abound as well. Roger Fiske notes that Beethoven never wrote out separate parts for the bassoons and contrabassoon but just indicated “col bassi” (“[play] with the bass”) – yet these wind instruments cannot play the same long, continuous lines as a bowed string instrument for a half-minute or more without taking a breath.
Tympani opening of the Gloria
Thus, for example, the poor contrabassoons are to open the Gloria with 42 fortissimo bars of rapid eighth note figures, and then starting at bar 440 hold a single forte note for 18 measures (about 35 seconds). Not even the tympani are spared – also at the beginning of the Gloria they are assigned sixteenth note figures in clusters of two alternating between each drum that cannot possibly be played at the specified allegro vivace tempo. Arnold Werner-Jensen attributes all this to Beethoven’s refusal to compromise an artistic vision that surpassed the limitations of instruments and musicians of the era (and even today), to which I would add that it is these very same challenges of the work that add a human dimension of transcending our mortal reality in order to strive for idealism, even while requiring us to strain toward a distant, and perhaps unattainable, goal.
Nowadays, the Missa Solemnis is most often compared with Bach’s 1747-9 Mass in b minor, BWV 232 – which Beethoven was unlikely to have encountered, as it was only published in 1833. Yet their structures are quite different – Bach’s Mass is comprised of self-contained homogenous movements, some of which dwell on the meaning of a single phrase of text, while Beethoven’s consists of five large blocks that combine the major sections of the Mass and flow amid shifting subjective moods. More significantly, each embodies the pinnacle of the divergent religious ideals of their respective composers and eras. Thus, the Bach, coming at the very end of his life, encapsulates his humility and a calm acceptance of his world and its boundaries, while the Missa Solemnis is bold, passionate and challenging, fully warranting the accusation hurled against Beethoven by his conservative detractors of being a “free-thinker.” If Bach’s is an affirmation of faith, Beethoven’s is the first major religious work to openly question it, and thus paves the way toward our modern artistic attitudes. In addition, Beethoven’s covers a far wider range of expression in order to plumb the depths of human experience, and shares with his other late works a “stream of consciousness” structure that manages to convincingly meld disparate elements into an integrated and challenging whole. As William Mann noted, Beethoven “wanted his audience to notice the knots in the wood and the hammer blows in the beaten metal.” Mann further notes that this intentional roughness is not just a personal fluke but is historically valid, as it stems from Beethoven’s study of older precedent harking back to the time of Palestrina before harmony and rhythms became so standardized. In any event, the Missa Solemnis was the end of the line, the last full-scale Mass by a major composer. (While Berlioz, Brahms, Verdi, Britten and others would produce equally imposing Masses, they were all requiems, and thus entail a far different religious attitude.)
The overall structure of the Missa Solemnis, of course, adheres to the prescribed text. Musically, it’s a smooth fusion of styles ranging from monastic chant and polyphony through classical instrumentation to Beethoven’s own symphonic work, infused with many episodes of fugue (with which he was increasingly enamored) and even a touch of the theatre. Above all looms his astounding musical personality, which unifies the disparate elements with logic and inevitability into an organic expression of the most intimate yet universal experiences and aspirations of mankind.
Kyrie – The predominantly meditative Kyrie is the most traditional (and shortest) of the five movements. As with all prior settings, the text is so concise and simple (“Kyrie eleison, Christe eleison, Kyrie eleison”) that it demands elaboration. Bach devoted a separate lengthy movement to each phrase – intricate vocal fugues for the Kyries and a lovely soprano duet for the Christe. Beethoven, too, develops the text in a tripartite structure into which commentators have read much symbolism. Tovey finds an overwhelming sense of Divine glory contrasted with the nothingness of man in the opening 4/4 section in which the soloists are first heard trailing powerful choral chords. Mann views the fugal soloist-driven central portion as representing the dual human and divine nature of Christ. Fiske considers the final part, a variation on the first, as representing the Holy Spirit, derived, yet different, from the Father.
Gloria – With an ecstatic outburst of full chorus and orchestra
The soaring theme of the Gloria
Beethoven leaps away from respectful precedent into bold new territory, as every voice, both instrumental and vocal, proclaims at full throttle: “Gloria in excelsis Dio” (“Glory to God in the highest”). Generally, the movement follows the implications of each section of the text, both as to general mood (complex fugues and textures for portions of praise; tender solos for supplication), melody (an upward rush for “gloria;” a near monotone for “miserere nobis”), dynamics (pp for “adoramus te;” fff for omnipotens”) and accompaniment (nervous twittering for “miserere nobis;” a few bare pizzicato chords for the holy mystery of “quoniam tu solis”). The conclusion is electrifying – two massive fugues on the last line of text (“in gloria Dei Patris. Amen”), the last capped by a ecstatic minute-long presto that cranks up the elation to its utmost peak and culminates in an a capella shout of “Gloria!”
Credo – The Credo opens a fascinating window to the question we posed at the outset.
The theme of the Credo
– an authoritarian command
Containing the bulk of the Mass text as a catalog of core beliefs, it challenges a composer to determine how to present all of them. Although Bach was Lutheran, he was deeply religious and accepted all the tenets of Christian faith, and so he treated each element of the Credo text with equivalent reverence and spread them among separate movements – seven choruses, an aria and a duet. Beethoven, though, took a far more subjective and selective approach in setting the entire text within a single integral movement. He sets the pace with a rather stentorian opening motif, sung by the basses, that suggests more an authoritarian command (“You will believe this”) rather then contented submission. As many commentators have noted, Beethoven emphasized certain portions while giving short shrift to others, and it seems reasonable to relate their relative prominence to the strength of his personal convictions. Thus he buries the doctrine of belief in one Catholic Church, mumbled quickly by the tenors beneath repeated choral shouts of “Credo,” while lavishing extended attention upon the portions addressing salvation, suffering and the incarnation. His greatest emphasis comes at the very end, where he devotes three separate sections comprising nearly a quarter of the entire movement to the single concluding line of “Et vitam venturi saeculi” (“And the life of the world to come”), thus strongly suggesting that his vision was directed to a better future – both his and ours – than to the trials of his (and our) earthly existence.
Sanctus – Beethoven saves his most personal touches for the two final movements. His Sanctus is suitably soft and mellow, holding violins, flutes and oboes in reserve for the outburst of a brief, joyous fugue on Pleni sont coeli and Osanna in excelsis. Although prescribed ritual ordains that the concluding Benedictus section is to await a silent pause for the elevation of the Host, Beethoven combines it into the same movement with an inspired touch – an orchestral Praeludium of deep, slowly-evolving sustained chords, as if to recall the primordial state of existence and profound obscurity before the Creation. Flutes and a solo violin then flutter down from the heights of their range, awaken and intertwine with the soloists, and ultimately rouse the chorus, all in a ravishing Benedictus that stands as one of the most moving slow movements (and solo violin parts) that Beethoven ever fashioned.
Agnus Dei – With the final movement Beethoven broke free of all convention. Barry Cooper, for one, feels that its theatricality and secularism impair the unity of the work, which until this point expresses personal feelings in abstract terms. Beethoven begins rather conventinally with a mournful, pleading Agnus Dei (“Lamb of God”) that rises from solo bass to soprano, with repeated insistence on “miserere,” subsides into a whisper, and slides seamlessly into a gently rolling 6/8 choral Dona nobis pacem (“Grant us peace”). But the closing leaves far behind any notion of ceremonial routine. While perhaps inappropriate in its time, it leapt ahead to anticipate the 20th century iconoclasm of Britten, Bernstein and others who used the Mass as the basis for crafting challenging works to probe and challenge the social and political mores of their own times.
Soloists, chorus and orchestra head toward the predictable satisfying end to the vast spiritual journey of the preceding hour with an affirmative final statement (firmly in the tradition of prior musical settings), but then are interrupted.
The perfunctory end of the Agnus Dei (piano reduction)
Pounding drums and trumpet fanfares intrude as the soloists, and then the full chorus, in clipped, terrified tones, turn the prayer for peace into a desperate plea. (Beethoven marks the lines as recitative and ängstlich – agitated.) Just as their fears subside and the flowing music appears headed once more for the expected triumphant conclusion, the full orchestra interrupts with an angry instrumental fugue, capped by shrill brass and thunderous percussive chords. Calm returns once more, but only to fall utterly silent to reveal the tympani rumbling menacingly in the distance. At last comes a final cadence, but in this militaristic context it sounds merely perfunctory, a wholly unconvincing attempt to dispel the persistent and lingering qualms as to where mankind is really heading.
As many have pointed out, Beethoven’s inspiration for this bold gesture may have been the first of Haydn’s Esterházy Masses, the Missa in Tempore Belli (“Mass in Time of War” – Haydn’s title), produced in 1796 as Napoleon was moving toward Vienna. Written in the normally carefree key of C major and mostly reflecting his irrepressible buoyancy, Haydn added uncharacteristic (and potentially sacrilegious) trumpets and drums to a brief somber opening (quickly dispelled by a cheery Kyrie) and to the closing Agnus Dei, which injected a hint of anxiety and desperation into the prayer for peace (but it, too, is followed by a substantial upbeat Dona nobis pacem to leave a final impression of jubilation). Rather than highlighting them in isolation, Haydn largely integrated his militaristic elements into the traditional plan of the Mass and used them to spice up the texture and only briefly to disrupt the mood, and so the impact was far less challenging than in the Missa Solemnis.
In any event, Beethoven headed the Dona nobis pacem section with a special inscription: “Bitte um innern und äussern Frieden” (“Prayer for inner and outer peace”). Thus he ends his most complex and arguably greatest work with a shrewd caution that a mind preoccupied with war cannot truly be joyful or at ease. Beethoven had lived through the Napoleonic wars (which, among other privations, had ruined the premiere of Fidelio, his only longer work) and here he clearly signals that until we have social and political stability, the inner contentment to which we all aspire will remain a cruel illusion. Thus Beethoven leaves us with an unsettled quest for faith rather than a comforting spiritual meditation, a deeply troubling question rather than a comforting affirmation.
Some may find this immature, sacrilegious, ignorant, smug, or all of the above, but my template for performances of the Missa Solemnis is this: Beethoven poured four years of the peak of his life into creating this astounding work, and any valid performance must radiate an equivalent measure of dedication, sincerity and passion. Undemanding, steady, moderate approaches may be fitting and even preferable in other religious works with a pious mien, but not here. As Denis Stevens observed: “the Missa’s strength derives from the feeling of massive strain and tension, and if this is removed the whole point of the work disappears.” In a reversal of the old adage about not judging a book by its cover, the graphics and liner notes that accompany Missa Solemnis recordings by many famous artists seem more imbued with Beethoven’s spirit than their careful, balanced and respectful performances. Among these are the ones led by Jochum (Philips), Davis (Philips), Wand (Nonesuch LP – with the wonderful gatefold cover art shown at right by Roger Hane), Solti (Decca), Giulini (EMI), Ormandy (Sony), Shaw (Telarc) and Karajan (DG).
The following recordings (among those I've heard) convey to me much of the essence of the Missa Solemnis. While precise categories are impossible for great art, I've grouped them into three broad types – those having deep respect for the weighty basic solemnity of the work (stemming from Kittle’s and Koussevitzky's seminal recordings), those stressing its visceral excitement and revolutionary ardor (beginning with Walter's astounding 1948 concert), and those lavishing scrupulous attention to detail (beginning with Toscanini and extending through historically-informed attempts to recreate the sounds of Beethoven's era). Each recording is listed in the following format: Conductor – Soprano Soloist, Alto Soloist, Tenor Soloist, Bass Soloist; Choir(s), Orchestra (Year recorded, original label and format, CD reissue (if appropriate)).
Bruno Kittel – Lotte Leonard / Emmy Land, Elenor Schlosshauer-Reynolds, Anton Maria Topitz / Eugen Transky, Wilhelm Guttmann / Hermann Schey; Bruno-Kittel-Chor, Berlin Philharmonic (1928, Polydor 78s, Japanese DG CDs)
The first recording of the Missa Solemnis was cut in 1928 by the Berlin Philharmonic led by Bruno Kittel on eleven Polydor 78s,
The first side of the Kittel 78 set
interchanging a total of seven soloists througout the various movements. Kittel was primarily known as a choral director, and the excellence of his choir was acclaimed throughout Europe and preserved in two superb recordings of the Beethoven Ninth by Fried (also 1928) and Furtwangler (1943). Alas, left to his own devices, and as one of Hitler’s favorite (and apparently compliant) musicians, his fame was tarnished by reportedly leading Nazi-commissioned and -themed works and by a 1941 Mozart Requiem recording in which he excised all possible references (Zion, Jerusalem) to the Jewish roots of Christianity, which Mortimer H. Frank termed “a symbol – foul as it may be – of the noxious impact of Nazism in general and the potentially insidious image resulting from any political manipulation of the arts.” As would be expected, the choral singing is rich and forceful (except for a brief blurred Osanna fugetto), and despite dynamic compression Kittel builds and relaxes his climaxes convincingly. Balances mostly are surprisingly good, even though the soloists occasionally are too prominent and a fair amount of overload distortion obscures the instrumental forces in the loudest passages. (I’m assuming that this is a flaw of the original 78s, which I’ve never heard, since Japanese transfers of historical 78s usually are quite accurate.) Generally, Kittel's leadership is sober and meditative, yielding a very slow overall timing of 85 minutes, although he does differentiate the various sections, even while working them into a evenly-flowing, well-integrated whole. The work reaches its emotional peak with an extraordinarily measured 23 minute Credo, in which the shimmering second section, Et incarnatus est, seems magically suspended in time and effectively sets an aura for the remainder in which drama is subsumed by reverence, somewhat spoiled only by a bland violin solo in the Benedictus and a flaccid orchestral fugue in the Agnus Dei – although the final timpani strokes are chillingly pronounced. Kittle’s deliberate approach set the pace for many others to come.
A reader kindly alerted me to a contemporaneous recording of a June 18, 1927 Barcelona concert to commemorate the centennial of Beethoven's death, given by the Orfeo Catala choral society and issued on a set of 12 Victor 78s (M-29). I've never encountered any LP or CD transfers, but judging from the Credo (the only portion I've been able to hear), the recording is rich and well-balanced, conductor Lluis Millet provides assured leadership, and the singing, by the society he had founded in 1891 and that was known for its technical polish, is precise yet full-bodied, smooth and expressive.
Serge Koussevitzky – Jeanette Vreeland, Anna Kaskas, John Priebe, Norman Cordon; Harvard Glee Club, Radcliffe Choral Society, Boston Symphony (1938, Victor 78s, Pearl CDs)
Perhaps out of deference to the excellence of the Kittel venture, the next recording of the Missa Solemnis only came a full decade later,
The last side of the Koussevitzky 78 set
(image courtesy of stephsrecordsales.com)
yet the producers apparently had so little confidence in its commercial prospects that they delayed release for three years. Koussevitzky approached music as a holy rite, and, rather ironically, the slow, steady tempos of his Missa Solemnis, while presumably intended to reflect his respect for the composer as well as his own sense of propriety and dignity, invoke the very sense of ritual that Beethoven sought to avoid in his own life. Thus, the entire opening Kyrie movement is leveled off to a uniform volume and both of the presto sections in the Gloria and Agnus Dei fugue are taken at the very same tempos as the preceding sections, denying them their flair. Yet the slow overall timing of nearly 83 minutes (including a 22-minute Credo), combined with an absence of drama, convincingly invests the entire work with an overall aura of deep deliberation. The amateur chorus and little-known soloists are wonderful, with the soprano and alto (who unfortunately misses an entire solo line in the Agnus Dei) given far more expressive leeway than the tightly-controlled chorale and orchestra. The recording, unfortunately, is quite blurred, with overpowering midrange that obscures much of the texture – and the soft tympani thuds that should infuse the ending with such subtle meaning are entirely inaudible and instead sound like grand pauses. Somewhat ironically, even though the chorus generally overwhelms the orchestra, the poor sonics lend an instrumental quality simply because the words are largely unintelligible and thus render the voices abstract. The recording apparently was made during a continuous session (it seems too quiet for a concert), with frequent missed notes between the 78 rpm sides, which change at regular intervals rather than at musically-logical transitions or pauses. While far less conspicuous in its time, the lapses are rather disruptive for modern listening (although in retrospect it is remarkable how seamlessly most works spread over multiple sides fit together, given the irrelevance of strict continuity during the 78 era, when gaps of several seconds were required to change or flip discs every few minutes). Setting aside the irony that a Nazi sympathizer had led a more empathetic reading than a devout American idol, the fact remains that Koussevitzky’s reading is little more than an historical artifact, thoroughly eclipsed artistically and technically by the Kittel set.
Otto Klemperer – (1) Ilona Steingruber, Else Schuerhoff, Ernst Majkut, Otto Wiener; Akademiechor, Vienna Symphony (1953, Vox LP); (2) Elisabeth Soderstrom, Marga Höffgen, Waldemar Kmentt, Martti Talvela; New Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus (1966, Angel LP, EMI CD)
Although recordings of several 1940s concerts have since emerged and been issued, the next Missa Solemnis to appear would have to await LPs. Despite his reputation for stodgy tempos, Klemperer produced one of the swiftest Missas on record. Issued on the budget Vox label, it became an even greater bargain when reissued in 1959 on a single Vox LP in their "L-o-n-g-e-r Long Play" series, with each side's 36 minutes in surprisingly decent fidelity. Firmly in the Koussevitzky tradition (but nearly 11 minutes shorter and with a notably more enthusiastic Credo), Klemperer applies his trademark style of steady resolve, projecting Beethoven's variegated moods with tempos that animate the work without overt acceleration or accenting that would disrupt its fundamentally serious nature. The mono recording is decent, with an effective blend of vocal and instrumental forces that sufficiently distinguishes the textures and accompaniments. Klemperer's highly-acclaimed stereo remake is over 6 minutes slower and scores with a superb recording that glistens with bright detail (and with organ bass that can shred your speakers) and an extraordinary feeling of repressed energy threatening to be unleashed. The Gloria in particular finds the performers' zeal persistently pressing forward and threatening to tear through the orderly fabric – and when they do, just for a moment near the very end, the impact is astounding. Overall, Klemperer's conception impresses with its sheer self-assurance which generates an atmosphere of mastery and inevitability, even if occasionally sacrificing some of the tension that others mine throughout the work. A corollary recording is the one by Heather Harper, Janet Baker, Robert Tear, Hans Sotin, the New Philharmonia Chorus and the London Philharmonic conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini (1975, EMI), which features ravishing singing (perhaps too ravishing for this work) luxuriating over nearly 88 minutes (the slowest I've heard), all of which elevates the work to a plane of pure spirituality.
Bruno Walter – Eleanor Steber, Nan Merriman, Walter Hain, Lorenzo Alvary; Westminster Choir, New York Philharmonic (1948 concert, Music and Arts CD)
Concert recordings from the middle phase of Walter’s career never cease to amaze me. Before escaping from Europe, he led good, solid Romantic readings, and the 1950s brought an increasingly mellow, polished approach that culminated in genial, warm and idealized stereo LPs. In between, though, he produced some of the most incendiary concerts ever preserved on record. This one crackles with visceral elemental excitement, constantly pushing tempos and dynamics to the extreme, drawing deeply committed singing and playing from his forces, and holding its sections together – but only barely – with thrilling tension. The Gloria, in particular, is simply staggering in its volatile fervor. The long gap of silence between the final note and the storm of applause attests to the depth of the spiritual impact this astounding performance had on its audience. The audio quality is a vast improvement upon the first AS Disc release, but still leaves much to the imagination. Yet how can that matter when presented with an artistic statement of this exalted level? I truly pity those sad folks turn their backs on the splendors of the past, purporting to bemoan the impossibility of enjoying anything in less than allegedly pure digital sound.
Erich Kleiber – (1) Nilda Hoffmann, Mafalda Rinaldi, Lydia Kindermann, Kolomon von Pataky, Emanuel List; Teatro Colon Orchestra and Chorus (1946 concert, Archipel CD), (2) Birgit Nilsson, Lisa Tunnel, Gosta Backlein, Sigurd Bjorling; Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus (1948 concert, Music & Arts CD)
That said, I do have my limits – and they’re sorely tested by a 1946 concert recording ostensibly by Erich Kleiber and the Teatro Colon Orchestra and Chorus. Beyond the scratches, distortion and imprecise side joins to be expected from off-air recordings of this vintage, the transfer has shrill short-wave fidelity, horrendous wow, loud thumps, buzzes and even a half dozen beeps – a shame, since the performance itself (or at least what can be gleaned of it) nearly matches Walter’s for its bold intensity. Yet, there may be a fascinating mystery here. A 1948 Stockholm Philharmonic concert by Kleiber, in vastly better sound (and featuring a young Birgit Nilsson as the soprano soloist), seems a world apart, and not just sonically – every movement is far slower (86 v. 75 minutes overall) and replaces primal snarl with a hovering spiritual unity. Is it possible that the same conductor led such diametrically disparate readings – one among the very fastest and impassioned on record and the other among the most deliberate and mellow – barely two years apart? Indeed, in his liner notes to the Music & Arts release, Mark Kluge questions the authenticity of the earlier reading. Misattribution of aircheck recordings of this era are hardly unknown, especially when they appear on labels that tend to be, shall we say, haphazard in their pursuit of legal rights. Frankly, the latter recording seems more in keeping with Kleiber’s reputation for more steadfast integrity than volatility – decidedly more modeled after Koussevitzky/Klemperer than Walter/Bernstein. And yet, the two performances share certain traits, such as their overall concentration, and the brisk openings of their Glorias – and, after all, Kleiber’s famous 1953 Concertgebouw recording of the Beethoven Fifth is widely hailed not for a patient, intellectual unfolding but rather for the rapid pace and relentless drive of its allegro con brio. Other details, though, are so different as to seem irreconcilable – thus, the timpani roll at m. 488 of the Gloria is massive in 1948 but nowhere to be heard in 1946. So, pending authentication of the intensely vibrant and impulsive Colon performance (and in the hope of appreciably better source material), the question of authenticity must remain. But if it turns out to have been led by someone other than Kleiber, I’d sure like to know who!
Leonard Bernstein – Eileen Farrell, Carol Smith, Richard Lewis, Kim Borg; Westminster Choir, New York Philharmonic (1960, Columbia LP, Sony CD)
Among relatively traditional performances, this first stereo Missa Solemnis is my favorite. Bernstein follows in the tradition set by Walter with the same choir and orchestra by eschewing smooth surface polish for a tough, sinewy approach, abetted by a closely-miked recording that highlights all the details. While far more tightly controlled and integrated than Walter’s hyper-dramatic dissection, Bernstein still conveys the work’s abundant energy with great conviction but within a more traditional context, and manages to project an overall aura of straining just enough to realize Beethoven’s overwhelming conception without abandoning the bounds of professional musicianship. The touch of iconoclasm was extended by the original LP liner notes, which consisted of extensive excerpts from Beethoven’s deceitful correspondence with his would-be publishers. Bernstein’s 1979 remake with the Hilversum Choir and Concergebouw Orchestra (DG LP and CD) is quite good, yet loses the edginess and passion he generated in New York in favor of a smoother blend. At the risk of sounding too chauvinistic for a work that preaches universality, perhaps Bernstein’s two recordings illustrate a fundamental difference between American and European approaches to interpretation. While far more polished than the 1960 Bernstein reading, the deeply heartfelt live Salzburg Festival recording by Cheryl Studer, Jessye Norman, Placido Domingo, Kurt Moll and the Vienna Philharmonic led by Bernstein protégé James Levine (1991, DG) invokes a similar impact by trying to squeeze every last drop of feeling from the work, although on occasion (especially in the Kyrie) it veers toward self-conscious operatic excess (hardly unexpected from its stellar cast of soloists and Levine's deep experience in the opera pit). Also in the category of visceral thrills, but with a diametrically opposite approach from Levine, is the recording by David Zinman, noted below.
Arturo Toscanini – (1) Zinka Milanov, Kerstin Thorborg, Koloman von Pataky, Nicola Moscona; BBC Choral society, BBC Symphony (1939 concert, BBC Legends CD); (2) Zinka Milanov, Bruna Castagna, Jussi Björling, Alexander Kipnis; Westminster Choir, NBC Symphony (1940 concert, Music and Arts CD); (3) Lois Marshall, Nan Merriman, Eugene Conley, Jerome Hines; Robert Shaw Chorale, NBC Symphony (1953, RCA LP, BMG CD)
Amazingly, Toscanini never conducted the Missa Solemnis until he turned 66, but apparently it took that long to percolate. His three generally available performances project the same piercing attention to detail, a distillation down to bare essence, steady pacing, razor-sharp attacks, and an overall avoidance of interpretive rhetoric, all of which create vast respect for the composer’s conception, which, of course, was Toscanini’s professed aim. (An earlier 1935 New York Philharmonic concert, available from private sources, while satisfying on its own terms, is far more pliant and "mainstream" and perhaps reflects a period of gestation before the emergence of Toscanini's ultimate view of the work.) One particular aspect common to all three – Toscanini shrugs off the end with a thoroughly bland advance to the final cadence, which he takes in strict tempo with no emphasis whatever, thus fully conveying a sense of its inadequacy to dispel the terror of looming war (an attitude which, I feel, Beethoven fully intended to express). (Several other conductors (Davis, Jochum) take an opposite, yet effective, approach by slowing down the final climax so that it emerges only gingerly, as if jubilation were hesitant to emerge in such hostile surroundings.) Toscanini's 1953 studio recording gains a measure of exhilaration from its faster tempos and has the best sonics. Yet artistically it is eclipsed by the two earlier concerts, which temper the simplified uniform pacing and textures of 1953 with greater flexibility and a certain degree of repose that magnify the impact of their climaxes. Of those, the 1939 London concert may have better overall balance, but the 1940 New York concert adds extra punch to its soaring moments with piercing brass and more prominent tympani. Although widely circulated for decades with dim sound on many labels, the rich yet well-defined 2003 Music and Arts restoration of the 1940 concert by Graham Newton approaches high fidelity.
John Eliot Gardiner – Charlotte Margiono, Catherine Robbin, William Kendall, Alastair Miles; Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists (1990, Archiv CD)
Perhaps the true heir of Toscanini's drive toward simplicity was the historical performance movement that emerged in full force in the 1980s. Among the few recordings of the Missa Solemnis that strive for period authenticity, Gardiner's has attracted consistent critical plaudits. Indeed, the attempt to realize the grandeur of Beethoven's conception with the modest resources of his time can be seen as another aspect of the struggle inherent in his work – the limited number of choral voices and an absence of the depth and force that we associate with (and have come to expect from) modern instruments at times seem unequal to the task. Yet, something crucial is gained by the effort to replicate the vastly different timbres of two centuries ago. It can be heard in the very first chord – reedy winds, crisp drums and a balance in which the strings blend into, rather than overwhelm, the ensemble. The soloists' minimal vibrato imparts their texts with a natural sincerity far removed from the suggestions of artifice and theatricality of the more common operatic projection, and thus creates a sense of direct communication, as does the plaintive solo violin in the Benedictus, which avoids the cloying sentimentality of some other renditions. Incidentally, Gardiner is one of the few to follow the original score by using the soloists, rather than the full chorus, in the Sanctus.
David Zinman – Luba Orgonasova, Anna Larsson, Reiner Trost, Franz-Josef Selig; Schweizer Kammerchor, Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich (2001, Arte Nova CD)
Here, we have a "hybrid" approach to the Missa Solemnis, which combines modern instruments with the balances and style of the early Romantic era. The timing alone announces the special nature of this recording – less than 66 minutes! – although it's hardly a surprise from the same forces that brought us a 59-minute Beethoven Ninth. Yet, it never sounds rushed, but rather ardent, as the tempos, while fast, are fully integrated into a convincing fabric, with sufficent respites to prepare for the next jolt of energy, and many wondrous features along the way – the Christe Eleison takes off like a heady waltz, the winds add lovely grace notes to the Gratias section of the Gloria, and the Gloria and Credo fugues boast superb clarity, despite the delirious tempos, the density of the writing and the considerable number of voices (90) and instruments (70) used. The voices and an especially prominent organ dominate the texture to impart a "churchy" sound. My only disappointment is that, despite thunderous drums, the military outbursts have diminshed impact. Overall, though, Zinman and his Swiss players bypass the gloss of the past to impart a thrilling sense of consistent vitality and fresh discovery, making the work vastly accessible – which, after all, is what Beethoven had intended. Among modern recordings, this is an ideal introduction to the glories of this fabulous work. The other extreme for a hybrid approach is by Eva Mai, Marjana Lopovšek, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Robert Hall, the Arnold Schoenberg Chor and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe led by Nikolaus Harnoncourt (1992, Teldec CD), who take a far more leisurely 81 minute excursion. Although they produce a somewhat thinner sound by complementing their modern instruments with narrow-bore trombones, natural trumpets and small, less-resonant tympani, they generally emphasize the reverential, rather than the revolutionary, aspect of a work which continues to fascinate and compel listeners for the very reason that Beethoven so brilliantly managed to balance both elements in such a compelling and personal way.
Information used in the historical portion of this article came primarily from the following sources:
Two monographs devoted to extensive background and analyses:
William Drabkin: Beethoven – Missa Solemnis (Cambridge University Press, 1991)
Roger Fiske: Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1979)
Biographies containing valuable information about the composer during this period:
Maynard Solomon: Beethoven (Schirmer, 1998)
Lewis Lockwood: Beethoven – The Musician and the Life (Norton 2003)
George Marek: Beethoven – Biography of a Genius (Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1969)
Notes to LP sets:
Ernest Newman – Toscanini/NBC studio performance, RCA LM-6013
James B. Rich – Kloor/Palatinate Philharmonia, Musical Heritage Society 1048/9
William Mann – Klemperer/Philharmonia, Angel SB-3679
Hans Schmidt – Davis/London Philharmonic, Philips 9500 542/4
Andrew Huth – Solti/Chicago, London 411-842
Notes to CDs:
Arnold Werner-Jensen – Bernstein/Concertgebouw, DG 413 780-2
Denis Stevens – Bernstein/NY Philharmonic, Sony SM2K 47522
Introductions to scores:
Willy Hess – introduction to the English Eulenburg score
Max Unger – introduction to the German Eulenburg score
Copyright 2011 by Peter Gutmann
For a note about the illustrations, please click here.
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Gardening on pavements
Lloyd Gedye and Michael MacGarry explain the value of a physical publication to an independent music scene.
Photo by Lisa Skinner.
Photo by Len van Heerden.
Posted 1 Aug 08 By Lloyd Gedye Music & Sound Design Point of View / Opinion Comments
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I believe it was the late Hunter S Thompson who said: "The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." Anyone who tells you otherwise is a liar or in Freshlyground.
Independent live music devotees, Michael MacGarry and myself, Lloyd Gedye, conceived of The Pavement Special sometime in May last year. We thought we could bring some much needed attention to independent South African musicians who battle to get any consideration from mainstream media, and have to get down on their knees to get record stores in this country to stock the albums that they spent their own time and money producing - with scant regard for the fact that the chances of making any money are slim to non-existent.
So the idea was to launch an independent magazine with accompanying compilation CD that took local musicians as seriously as they took themselves. Seven four-page features, 2000 words per band and beautiful photography that resisted falling back on rock'n'roll clichés. Rather than putting five months of time and money into creating this magazine to then battle to get it stocked in stores (like the musicians were) we decided to throw a party, get all the bands to play and charge people to get in. The magazine and CD were free, but you had to come and watch the bands play live.
Issue One featured country punks Jim Neversink, Afro-dub rockers the Blk Jks, Pretoria's post-rockers kidofdoom, Belville’s rock upstarts Foto na Dans, sex-obsessed electro-funksters Sweat X and the unclassifiable Buckfever Underground, and was launched on December 13 last year. Us Kids Know, Jim Neversink, Blk Jks and kidofdoom played to more than 250 people at The Bohemian in Richmond, Johannesburg. Yes, The Pavement Special was now a going concern.
Realising that realistically we could only manage to produce one magazine per year (we do both have day jobs), we decided to launch a series of compilation CDs throughout the year, featuring all the musicians that we could not squeeze into one magazine with seven bands. Thus we could accommodate artists like Johannesburg electro musician Jane Rademeyer, whose album I Think a Halo was only released in November 2007, while we were already putting the finishing touches to the magazine, or garage-rockers the Shadow Club, who only played their first gig near the end of 2007, but by March 2008 had already released a killer debut album.
By the end of February the album-only Issue Two was already in planning stages. Featuring unreleased tracks by Cape Town’s noise artist Righard Kapp, Pretoria's prog-rockers Isochronous and rarities in the form of a Jim Neversink outtake and a kidofdoom remix, Issue Two is a resource for local music fans and an introduction to the diversity of local artists. A booklet accompanies the CD and features photography, biographies, discographies and websites of the musicians.
Issue Two was launched on June 28, with an event that featured eight performances beginning at 2pm in the afternoon and going through to midnight. Performers included Ampersand, Jim Neversink, Isochronous, Jane Rademeyer, the Shadow Club and electro artist Jacob Israel, among others.
Plans are already under way for The Pavement Special Issue Three, another compilation CD set for launch in August, and Issue Four, the next magazine and compilation CD set for launch in late November. But see, The Pavement Special is so much more than just a CD compilation, magazine, badge or T-shirt, it is a brand, an event and a flesh-and-blood community of the best independent musicians and listeners in South Africa playing and partying, one after each other, on any given night for your entertainment. This is an open group. - Lloyd Gedye
Design analysis of pavements
The bold black-and-white design of The Pavement Special grew out of the publication's target industry and budget limitations. The intent was to let the content determine the temperament of the publication as a whole.
In the case of Issue One, there were seven features, no advertising, no editorial and no reviews - as there was nothing else we really wanted to say or distract the reader with. The usability and reader journey thus promoted that the design be as idiot-proof as possible, and as reduced and uncluttered without looking empty, uninteresting or lacking in substance. What resulted was the design that has become identifiable as The Pavement Special style, in which the graphic design and illustration work are kept latent, rather driving the visual character through photography and typographic treatments.
The logo grew out of the need to include the compilation CD on the cover of Issue One and wanting to rouse the anthropomorphic appeal of an icon-based character or "face". These overlapping dual CD eyeballs of the logo are also reminiscent of analog reel-to-reel devices used to record sound and live performances in the past. The urban, street nature of the project's title, coupled with the inherent humour in the name's slang origin, also made smashing one of the teeth out logical. This simple bar graphic also furthers the musical slant by functioning as an avatar for piano keys. The urban aspect of the project is again advanced in the beat-up, scratchy character of the title's typographic treatment.
Both publications were printed on uncoated paper throughout to emphasise the tactile, tangible and stark character of both the overall design as well as the project's intent. - Michael MacGarry
Pounding the pavement
The Shadow Club
The Shadow Club are Jacques Moolman (vocals and guitar), Alex Hing (bass) and Isaac Klawansky (drums). Formed in August 2007, the band debuted at The Bohemian in October and completed the recording of their eponymous debut album by March 2008. They sound like the Black Keys fronted by Jeff Buckley and if ballsy garage/blues rock is your thing then this is your band. Website: www.myspace.com/theshadowclub.
Jane Rademeyer
Jane Rademeyer sprung on to the Johannesburg music scene in 2007 with the release of her debut album I Think a Halo on Uncorp Records, but she has always been involved in music in some shape or form, whether in jazz bands, conducting symphonies for car hooters or co-writing songs with electronic wunderkind Felix Laband. I Think a Halo was one of the best South African albums released in 2007 and Rademeyer is already back at work on a follow-up.
Ampersand AKA Warren Cohen is a swampy lo-fi songwriting extraordinaire who announced his arrival last year with his great debut record This Is Not A Drill released on Righard Kapp's new label '\./#/. Wearing all its flaws on its sleeve, Ampersand's audaciously under-produced album, rife with tape hiss, heavy reverb and lo-fi fuzz was released in August 2007. Love or loathe his DIY approach, you won't argue that Ampersand's priority doesn't side with clever songwriting. Website: www.myspace.com/amprsnd
Jim Neversink
The band is Jim Neversink on guitar and lap-steel; Matthew Fink on guitar and accordion; Katherine Hunt on bass, violin and mandolin; and Warrick Poultney on drums. The Neversinkers finally finished their second album, titled Shakey is Good, in December last year. Punk-rock stompers and lo-fi ballads sit side-by-side to create one of the best albums released this year. Website: http://www.myspace.com/westernworld
Blk Jks
Consisting of Linda Buthelezi on lead guitar and vocals, Mpumi Mcata on rhyhm guitar, Molefi Makananise on bass and Tshepang Ramoba on drums, the Blk Jks fuse a diverse range of influences into a melting pot of truly South African sound. Afro-rock, dub, reggae, metal and blues are all filtered through the creative talents of these four musicians who hail from Spruitview and Soweto, to create one of the most interesting musical sounds the country has to offer. Fresh from a tour of the United States, the band has just released their new EP titled Mystery. Website: www.myspace.com/blkjks or www.blkjks.blogspot.com.
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Sari: The Dress Of The Goddesses Of India That Is Fashionable Among The Famous
The sari, the seven meters of silk that have enveloped India’s women for several civilizations, remains through the centuries as the feminine dress of the Asian country and now seeks a privileged place in fashion with its foray into the international red carpets
The entry of the former Indian Miss World Priyanka Chopra in the American film industry, added to her rise in popularity after her recent wedding with singer Nick Jonas, has staged the ancient costume as an enigmatic and glamorous garment worthy of the stage choicest of the show.
A short blouse that ends above the navel, and a rectangle of exactly seven meters of fabric that wrap women around the waist, adding a set of pleats in the front before passing it as a stole over the shoulder, is the set that assembles the ancient Indian costume.
In early June, Chopra’s appearance on the cover of the American magazine InStyle dressed in the continuous piece of draped fabric focused on clothing reserved for more traditional settings.
How does it stay well positioned?
Clothing of Hindu mythology’s goddesses, the fabric remains intact armed in the female body thanks to an ancient and meticulous technique transmitted from mother to daughter for generations.
The history of the sari
For years, even in our Upanishads and Ramayana, our Vedas (ancient Indian scriptures), our gods and their disciples used to wear saris, especially in the ancient city of Kashi (Varanasi), hand-woven silk that is also described in our Vedas.
The author of “Saris: Tradition and Beyond,” Rta Kapur Chishti, says that to get an idea of its origin, one can “take historical references to the Vedas or the Harappan civilization (3300-1300 BC), where you can find sculptures and texts on the use of seamless garments. “
However, historians agree that the ancient garment, initially used as a piece of cloth to cover nudity, does not have a precise reference of origin. It would not be possible to give a date of birth to the sari, and nobody should try it.
Reinvent the saree
Reinventing a traditional piece is one of the challenges of Indian designers trying to make new references on the catwalks and perform the complex task of dressing the goddesses of Bollywood, the Indian film industry.
The saree in India is reinventing itself by using textiles and non-traditional fabrics to create the garment. More contemporary, lighter designs are being made,” designer Kanika Jain, the founder of the Kanelle brand, explains to Efe. “These are the saris of the new era,” he added.
Despite the entry of major international brands, the sari persists in Indian women’s wardrobe, especially for weddings and special events.
There is also a conservative trend that wields calls to protect ancestral culture from Western influence. “Government officials should wear clean clothes … like the sari,” the government of the state of Tamil Nadu (south), according to a circular circulated in the Indian media “India Today.”
For some women in India, the sari is a symbol of their identity with the national culture. For the Tilfi saris house director, Udit Khanna, the sari fever has increased in the younger generations with “new ways to put together the saree, add accessories and combinations.”
The also Indian Deepika Padukone showed off the beauty of the sari on the French Riviera on the red carpet of the last Cannes Festival, ruling out wearing outfits by the iconic designers who move the international catwalks.
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Games Pixi | The Silver Case Review
The Silver Case Review
Ryan L. November 16, 2016 Comments Closed Review
If Suda 51 represents one of a scant few auteur game designers, The Silver Case, finally released on Western shores in this remastered form, is basically his student film, a statement of intent and trajectory rather than its own cohesive masterwork. As such, The Silver Case has a few of the elements that fans have come to recognize in a legitimate “Suda 51 Joint”, but those elements are obscured by convoluted point-and-click gameplay, and a story that meanders, rants, and rambles getting where it needs to go.
The overarching narrative involves the return of an infamous serial killer named Kamui Uehara to a futuristic Japanese city known as the 24 Wards–and the efforts of a small investigative team to take him down. The game features two scenarios: In the first, Transmitter, you play as a mute detective who is somehow spared by the killer Kamui on the night he first reappears. In the other scenario, Placebo, you take on the role of a freelance reporter whose tale runs parallel to the first mode, as you sort through the mess after the cops are done.
The Silver Case’s gameplay uses bog-standard adventure game mechanics. You can walk around your environment from one specified point to another by just turning, looking, and pushing up on the keyboard/gamepad. Once at a specific point, noted with a technicolor star indicator, you can use the Check option to get more details or activate the next scene. Some moments and puzzles require special tools in the Implements menu, but these moments are rare. For the most part, you’re basically just following the dialogue around a room to get to the next scene. It’s always when it’s least expected or necessary that the game finally cottons to the fact that you might want to play it, and then it has the player knocking on doors, asking witnesses questions, wandering aimlessly around an environment to find the trigger for the next scene, or, in some cases, solving tricky little ciphers to open a door. Still, you can go long stretches without ever getting a button tap in. Some scenes literally have the protagonist walk two steps ahead, then trigger a long dialogue that may not let up for 10 minutes.
The game is framed like episodes of a television show, with each taking maybe an hour and a half to two hours to complete each–assuming you don’t get tripped up by an obtuse puzzle or have to re-check every door and contact point looking for the one action prompt you missed; or assuming you don’t get confused by the controls altogether, where just getting to the point of moving forward through the first-person space is a three-step process instead of just pressing forward. The same goes for looking up, down, investigating an object, or talking to someone in the room, all which involve an overly convoluted, clunky menu.
Even if you gain some sort of finesse with the controls, the game’s length remains a sticking point due to some terrible pacing and difficulty parsing new story details. Bad controls in a ’90s point-and-click adventure can be tolerated if the stories are well paced and brilliantly executed, but each Silver Case episode is padded with filler. Every detective seems to have a philosophical ramble on every small decision they have to make in the field, and none of these characters are interesting or layered enough to make this stuff compelling. Most fall into the category of thinking that their job is dumb, and anybody putting in effort is a loser.
This, of course, is one of the hallmarks of Suda 51’s work: apathetic heroes treating a completely insane, terrifying scenario as a nuisance keeping them from a good nap. The main issue with The Silver Case, however, is that–some bizarre minor details aside–the scenarios here are grounded in reality more than anything Suda made afterward. The usual fuzzy logic and unnatural human interactions that add to the “playable dreamscape” feeling of most of his games is an ill fit here. These are plausible scenarios, worked on by implausible characters.
When the game does get to the business of actually presenting the gory details of each case, it fares better. The overarching narrative of the Kamui case is the glowing red seed of abstract madness that has come to define Suda’s work, and the horrors presented whenever the plot progresses are chilling and effective. Some of the other scenarios, including a hilariously dated (yet sadly, still prescient) case based around cyberbullying are just dead-weight slogs to get through. Others, however, such as a case that revolves around a man held for ransom while his businesses are completely dismantled by a mute terrorist, are breezy and captivating– that one employs a beautiful black-and-white noir-ish art style.
The Placebo scenario as a whole gets some points for having an active, talkative, interesting protagonist to tag along with. Even the good cases are sometimes hard to get a solid grasp on, however, and the fact that so many different art styles–CG, anime, live action, still manga panels–are employed willy-nilly to tell the tales doesn’t help. While some of the varieties in art direction are compelling, there are often too many to get a firm grasp on what the game aims for as a whole. For this remaster, Suda enlisted his longtime collaborator Akira Yamaoka to help remix the score, and while the music by itself is a fun, jazzy throwback most of the time, it, too, flies in the face of whatever of import is happening onscreen.
More than anything, The Silver Case is more interesting in the context of Suda 51’s career than it is as a standalone game. It shows an ambitious floating of new ideas past the player, and much of how the story is presented would later find a more welcome home when surrounded by much weirder, wilder worlds. Stranded in the framework of a police procedural, however, the game fails its best concepts. The Silver Case’s unusual take on human conversations, its indecision about whether it wants to be just a visual novel or an adventure game where the player is a full participant, and its lack of focus in tying up any sort of cohesive plot, all add up to a mess of a game.
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Title: This is My Land
URL: http://librarywork.taiwanschoolnet.org/gsh2006/gsh4294/index.htm
Bibliography: http://librarywork.taiwanschoolnet.org/gsh2006/gsh4294/bibliography.htm
School: MingHu Junior High School
Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China
5 students, ages 12~13 worked together to complete this CyberFair project on March 17, 2006. They have participated in CyberFair in the following year(s): 2005
Classes and Teachers: Yeh Chaur-Yuh, Din Zi-Wen, Hsu Ye-Kuei
Our School's Web Site: http://www.mhjh.tp.edu.tw
6 decades ago, as the Nationalist government failed in the civil war between Kuomintung and Chinese Communist Party, a massive wave of immigration occurred across the Taiwan Strait. Approximately one million of so-called “provincial families” or “external provincial persons” came to Taiwan with the government. Most of them were soldiers and their dependents dwelling in different places dispersively. In order to help them settle down, the government built many military dependents' villages named “Bamboo Fences” featured by “bamboo and tile as a roof, chopsticks and mud as a wall.” With time passing, these formed a very special family having its own culture of villages and lifestyle. There are military dependents’ villages everywhere in Taiwan. As living in Taipei and having a favorable geographic position, we take these villages in Taipei City as our research topic.
Taking “Bamboo Fences” to describe dependents’ villages implies the meanings of “segregation” and “isolation”. Indeed, it’s the situation of dependents’ villages in early times. However, as time changed, “Bamboo Fences” surrounding dependents’ villages were torn down with urban renewal, reconstruction of dependents’ villages, outward moving of the residents for studying and marriage, etc. It’s a pity that we can sense a tendency of confrontation and discord among Taiwan’s races and families due to the previous elections in recent years, making people on this land worry. We made interviews with many veterans or honorary soldiers, their dependents, and the younger generation. By means of this project report research, we hope to enhance more comprehension and understanding between different races and families. Because no matter people came to Taiwan earlier or later, they all settled down and took root on this land. Furthermore, we hope to make people inside/outside the “Bamboo Fences” all realize that “We are families” through this project report.
A. Percentage of students using the Internet at home:more than 50%
C. Connection speed used in the classroom:not sure
D. Number of years our classroom has been connected to the Internet:more than 6
Each team member has a computer at home connected to the ADSL broadband network. The assignments that the teacher distributed to us commonly would be dealt by the computers at home, and then reported and transmitted back to the teacher. Besides, we also utilized the network to receive/send E-mails, contact each other, look for data, transmit files and even chitchat. It is very convenient to use the network. If we needed to discuss the outlines of Web pages and art designing, the computer classroom in school afforded us a place for conferring and using network.
1. As each member has curricular courses and talent-and-skill cramming, and some team members even participate in a chorus, it is not so easy to get all members to show up. Make sure the date and time of working early and notify each member a week before the working day to let everyone to make arrangements and adjust the courses. Besides, we also had meetings during the noon-break or after school. 2. As we deal with the questionnaires on campus, some students refuse to be interviewed for lack of interest. Find the known classmates in the elementary schools and ask them to introduce their good friends. This kind of “rat clubs” or snow balls really worked. 3. As we can only have an interview on holidays, and if the interviewed are working people, it is much inconvenient to match each other on time. We took the leisure after the monthly exams to go to Taipei City Council to visit councilors and officers of Department of Urban Development. We also dropped by the boss of the breakfast bar before going to school. By this way, we could fit in with the time of the interviewed objects without affecting our school time. 4. We learned Flash, Dreamweaver, etc. a little bit before, but did not understand them deeply and almost forgot everything right now. Teachers sacrificed their noon-break and after-class-time to teach us how to apply to the web pages of this project report gradually from the beginning. 5. Some grandfathers and grandmothers interviewed speak with a heavy native accent so that we can not understand what they talk about. Ask fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, relatives and friends, etc. for help to listen to the radio tape. If still unable to understand it, we could not but wield personal imagination and creativity (Fortunately, this kind of situation does not happen frequently). 6. As the interviewed objects live in different places, it takes a long time to go there and back. Andy's and Jim's fathers not only offered two “private taxies” but also served as drivers to take us to “anywhere we want to go”
1. It was really fantastic to work alone and together to finish this project. 2. When seeing the work done, we realized the true meanings of “those who sow with tears must reap with cheers”. 3. No matter when people came to this land, 400 or 60 years ago, after settling down and taking root here, we became families and should not distinguish from each other.
The harvests from “International Schools CyberFair” are 1. On the Field of Mathematics: we applied logical thinking to questionnaire designing, used statistical charts to present the outcomes of investigation, made arrangements and analyses of data, and finally proposed our views and feelings. 2. On the Field of Social Studies: The objects we had made interviews included “Honorary Soldiers” and their dependents and next generation of different backgrounds. They differed from our classmates whom we used to get alone with ordinarily. It broadened our horizon, and enhanced our ability on research of social investigation. All of these were the experiences that could never be learned in class. 3. On the Field of Science and Technology: During the process of research, we wielded products of modern technological science, such as digital cameras, voice pens, personal computers, scanners, and broadband networks. We also learned and knew how to use the software of web pages designing, and finished our paper by coordinating interviews on the spot and questionnaires. Contacting and sending notices by E-mails and utilizing the network to transmit the arranged data are much better than the traditional ways. Besides, what is great is that our ability of web pages designing was strengthened insidiously that would be of great help to the lifelong study in the future. 4. On the Field of Arts and Humanities: During the process of turning research achievements into webpage presentations, the teachers and parents spent a lot of time teaching us many skills, such as art designing by computers, page layouts, color management, and image manipulation, that would be very helpful to us. 5. On the Field of Integrative Activities:In order to make interviews, the teachers directed us an and design. Especially, we would set up a database for various objects, in case there would be a blank in the process of interviews. Questionnaire designing was also the product of team members' brain storming, within that we deeply realized the reasons why “Two heads are better than one.” After making arrangement totally, the teachers distributed the assignment according to personal specialities and interests, and set a deadline. We typed and dealt the data after that.
1. Interviews on the Spot: W e interviewed “Honorary Soldiers,” their dependents and next generation of different backgrounds personally. 2. Questionnaires: We designed two questionnaires, and the objects investigated were our classmates in school. 3. Digital cameras: We used digital cameras to take photos, photograph, and put the process of interviews on record. 4. Voice Pens: As going outside for interviews, we used the video pens to record conversations anytime, facilitating the arrangement and recognition of materials afterward. 5. Desktop computers and Notebook: We utilized computers for paper writing, webpage designing, communication and file transmitting. 6. Internet: We looked for related web pages on internet to replenish our project with more data. We communicated and discussed with net friends through discuss zone on internet. 7. Scanners: We used scanners to deal with the collected images for image manipulation. 8. Printers: We used printers to print data for passing round for perusal and interchanging ideas. 9. Telephones and e-mails: To contact with our interviewees and members of the web page design team via telephones and e-mails 10. Computer software: Flash Mx, Dreamweaver MX, PhotoImpact 10.0, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Visio and cuteFTP
In the street stalls, “Honorary Soldiers” has another name: “Old Taros.” Most common people's impression of “Honorary Soldiers” is: old-aged external provincials with a heavy accent and a special family in which people live distinctively and most of them are unmarried or married with women much younger than themselves. However, how many people do understand the poignancy they had for leaving home, the hardships they suffered for earning a living after just coming to Taiwan, and the nostalgia they bore for leaving home for over 50 years? How did they settled down and took root on this land? In order to solve these questions, we decided to take the forms of personal interviews to realize the real life of “Honorary Soldiers” instead of searching for data by internet or quoting coverage on newspapers and magazines. The objects that we interviewed included “Honorary Soldiers,” their dependents and the next generation. With our project, we would like to take the role of Ambassador to introduce this first-handed interview to everyone, hoping to let more people realize “Honorary Soldiers”, this special family, and make people living on this treasure island more harmoniously because of understanding.
In this project research, We had a lot of new experiences: listen to “Honorary Soldiers” grandfathers talking about different personal stories and experiences of joining the army, fighting in a battle, reuniting with the old wives after 50 years' separation, dwelling beside the tombs or the dead, earning a living by picking up junk, undergoing nostalgia for leaving home for almost 50 years. These various experiences made a great impact on us: War was cruel, bring humans nothing but pains. We did no hope to meet any war forever! To cultivate our self-independent ability, all teachers would not join the interviews, forcing us to initiate the interviews with flushing and stammering, but end up with ease and volubility. Our team members all felt ourselves growing up a lot suddenly during this period. That's so-called “Experience is the mother of wisdom.”
To be able to complete this study, we most want to thank the alderman Li Geng. Without her support and assistance, we cannot finish this task. Many people to thank for, including grandma Yang, Bau-Jen, grandma Lee, Yun-Shian, grandma Hsiao, Lu, aunt Wu, Huei-Li, aunt Chao, Ru-Fen,; grandpa Chang, Ping, grandpa Huang, Tzu-Ching, grandpa Chen, Ming-Shuen, grandpa, Lee, Chih-Shin, grandpa Lee, Hong-Ann, grandpa Chao, Li-Tong, uncle Ruei, Shiang-Peng, uncle Lu, Chih-De. Also thank Jan, Li-Lin, the director of alderman office, the division chief Luo, Shih-Yu and section chief Lin, Yu-Shiou at Department of Urban Development Taipei City Government, uncle Peng, Cheng-Shiung at Service Center of Honorary Soldiers, aunt Chen, Fu-Mei, father Lei, Jian-Yu of Ta-Chih Quaker Church, president Liu, Jin-Ping of Hsinchu Ching-Tien Self-Development Association, teacher Wu, Shu-Ting, teacher Ma, Lan, teacher Kuo, Li-Mei, and the seniors and classmates of Minghu Junior High School. Finally we want to thank teacher Yeh Chaur-Yuh, Din Zi-Wen, Hsu Ye-Kuei and parents’ encouragement and support, especially father Huang De, mother Tse His, Mr. and Mrs. Geng Jing for spending a great deal of time and effort with us, as our driver, bodyguard, technical instruction, photographer, proofreader, etc. All the members of “Time Discovery” would like to say herewith: “Although we usually say no need to thank for the big favor, we still want to express our appreciation to everyone who has helped us!”
Findings : We supposed that we had learned a lot on computer lessons before, but after experiencing this Web pages designing, we found, “Well, there's still much to be improved.” Lessons: After listening to “Honorary Soldiers” grandfathers' experiences, it felt that war's cruelty instigated hatred among people, and it brought humans nothing but pains! The lessons we got was: Only Peace, No War. Surprises: Both profiles by interviews and questionnaires on campus made us grow up from shyness and unfamiliarity to natural and graceful manner. What a surprise this project brought to us: “We seemed to grow up unexpectedly!”
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Principals slam exorbitant cost of education
Fiji Principals say free education in Fiji is a misnomer as it costs parents up to $3000 a year for lower secondary education resulting in a lot of dropouts.
Speaking at the Principals conference yesterday, FPA president Susau Managreve said education in Fiji should not be labelled free because “it was far from it”.
Government paid only 10% of the cost of a child’s education which in the case of a form three child come to a mere $153. The other 90% was borne by parents.
“The economics of education is no longer affordable. And you wonder why children drop out of school,” he was quoted as saying by The Fiji Times.
The cost of bus fares, school stationary, uniforms, lunches, fund raising activities and extra-curricula activities have become prohibitive. In addition, all schools now charge additional levy in the way of building, sports, library, photocopying and other fees.
However, Education Minister Ro Teimumu Kepa says government does not have the funds to increase its per child allocation to schools.
Fiji Labour Party, in its pre-Budget statement, has pleaded with government to remove VAT and Duty from basic food items and everyday household goods as well as from educational and medicinal supplies. This would go a long way in helping the poor cope with the rising cost of living.
35,000 drop out of school in five years: Labour
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Screwed on the Boardwalk
Lighting the Parachute Jump
Filmed by Coney Island photographer Jim McDonnell, the short was entered into the 2013 Coney Island Film Festival.
F Train Hell: 1,300 Commuters Stranded For Hours After Track Snap
F Train Hell: 1,300 Commuters Stranded For Hours After Track Snap: Gothamist
Most New Yorkers would agree that there's no better way to cap off a long work week than being trapped on a subway for hours with hundreds of other straphangers. So approximately 1,300 commuters are probably counting their lucky stars after they got stuck on the F train for over two hours last night in Manhattan. According to the MTA, a southbound F train ran over a broken rail south of the West 4th Street station around 7:10 p.m.; the train didn't derail, but it couldn't move anywhere on the snapped track. And as you can see in the Tweets and Instagrams below, people were mighty pleased about the situation:
Screwed on the Boardwalk: Rare ticket given to couple riding bikes on the #coneyisland #boardwalk
Rare ticket given to couple riding bikes on the #coneyisland #boardwalk
Walk to End Alzheimer's drew a big turnout in morning
Bike rider should have walked bike through the crowds
Festive atmosphere with lots of families
Not surprising that the boardwalk would be crowded on this spectacular day. But with the 2013 Walk to End Alzheimer's starting at 9am and a large turnout in the afternoon by Hasidim and their families to celebrate the holiday of Sukkot it was more festive with large numbers of families and young boys and girls in and out of hundreds of strollers. It is always difficult to navigate by bike around the masses on the boardwalk and the prudent and considerate thing to do is get off and walk your bike for everyone's safety. But today was especially busy including a presence of heavy security.. Earlier I had just observed a woman in a light blue top speeding and swerving through the densely packed groups and wondered if she had a clue how reckless she was. As I turned to go back I observed this young couple being stopped by a police officer and given a ticket for riding their bike on the boardwalk. They obviously were unaware of the rule which forbids any bike riding except between the hours of 5am-10am. .
The young woman explained that this was her first visit to Coney Island and she saw no signs or warning that biking was not permitted. She is partly correct. The signs are stenciled at the bottom of the ramps that enter the boardwalk at various locations along the route.. But they are not very visible and it is easy to miss the faded decals as one rides up the ramp.
I tried to warn other riders about the police ticketing and most got off and walked or turned back. One elderly woman told me to "F*** Off! I hope she got caught.
The parks department needs to make the signs more visible as one enters onto the boardwalk. The parks department has a love affair with these decals along Ocean Parkway as well. The older ones are barely readable and the newer ones don't seem to do the job although the graphics are nice. Brightly colored signs that are at eye level must be installed.
Soon afterwards I noticed the woman in the blue top speed again returning from the Coney Island amusement area. I don't think she got a ticket. Felt bad for the two that did. It was the first time ever I saw a ticket being written for riding on the Boardwalk in the twenty years I have been going there..
Police officer writes ticket to couple for riding their bikes on the Coney Island Boardwalk
Mom, daughter, and pet dog
Today was pretty windy at the beach. Blowing sand kept many people on the boardwalk and away from the shoreline. As I was leaving I took this shot of this family sitting just off the steps that lead onto the beach. Didn't realize their pet dog was part of this crew until checked out the pic later. You can tell how windy it was by the white caps on the ocean. Long lens gave me a better result than I expected. Brought back memories of our visits to the beach with the kids as they grew up only a few steps from the sand and surf.
Do Not Touch! #beach #coneyisland
#coneyisland #boardwalk after a light rain shower
Girl with blue tote bag on Boardwalk
Safe riding with friends
Safe riding with friends on Ocean Parkway and obeying the little white man
Some Ocean Parkway benches are just the right size.
Jeffrey Babbitt Remembered By Friends In Union Square » Sheepshead Bay News Blog
Jeffrey Babbitt Remembered By Friends In Union Square » Sheepshead Bay News Blog (full article)
It has been 10 days since the tragic death of Jeffrey Babbitt, a local Sheepshead Bay man killed at the hands of a deranged homeless man in Union Square. While a private funeral was held in Beth El Cemetery in Paramus, NJ, the New York Times noted that Babbitt was also remembered by his friends who shared his love of comic books, fairies and all things fantastical in Union Square in a beautiful public display of love and remembrance.
As we previously reported, the attack on Babbitt took place on September 4. The 62-year-old Babbitt was a retired train operator who frequented Union Square often to visit his friends at the Forbidden Planet comic book store, where he was a beloved regular. Tragedy struck when 31-year-old Lashawn Marten announced to the crowded park that he was going to attack the first white person he saw. Babbitt just happened to be walking by when he received a blow from Marten that crashed him to the ground, cracking his skull and effectively ceasing his brain activity. Babbitt subsequently died at Bellevue Hospital, leaving behind his 94-year-old mother Lucille, who he cared for in their Sheepshead Bay apartment located on Ocean Avenue.
PTB #BeachVolleyball in #ConeyIsland
PTB Beach Volleyball tournament
NYC Century Bike Tour 2013 #NYCcentury
NYC Century Bike Tour 2013
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Boardwalk Bits
Tasting the cool morning air
Hair and makeup for a photo shoot.
Coney Island rides again: “We will never make Disney here”
In the ensuing decades, population loss, television, cars and air conditioning undercut Coney Island’s appeal. New York’s urban planning czar, Robert Moses, hated its tawdry arcades and thrill rides. He transformed the eastern end of the amusement district into a home for the relocated New York Aquarium. The housing projects with which he rebuilt Coney Island became some of the city’s most depressed and dangerous.
As the city grew rapidly in the ’90s, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani set his sights on Coney Island. Like Moses before him, he bulldozed a roller coaster to build a recreational facility, this time a minor league ballpark for the Brooklyn Cyclones. The Bloomberg administration eyed the island as a potential site for the 2012 Olympics, and in 2003, commissioned the Coney Island Development Corporation (CIDC) to examine the possibility of revising the restrictive C7 zoning that since 1961 had sheltered carnies and coasters (and a few vacant lots, as well) from market forces.
But a Brooklyn developer named Joe Sitt stole the limelight from CIDC, announcing a $2 billion plan in September 2005 that made the Las Vegas Strip look dull. Sitt had shrewdly purchased over a dozen acres of the old amusement park in anticipation of a rezoning gold rush, and hoped to bring in marquee clients like Dave and Buster’s, Ripley’s Believe it or Not, and the Hard Rock Café.
Staten Island Jews Struggle To Recover From Hurricane Sandy
Staten Island Jews Struggle To Recover From Hurricane Sandy – Forward.com
Nine months ago, Natalia Demidova crouched on the second floor of her Staten Island home and watched her neighbor’s SUV race a 10-foot wave down the street. The wave crashed through Demidova’s quiet residential block in the South Beach neighborhood and flooded her home with more than two feet of water.
Demidova is among the many residents of South Beach still struggling to restore the life she had before Hurricane Sandy hit the northeastern United States last October. For most of the past year, she has been living with her family in a hotel while working to repair her severely damaged home. She had hoped to be able to move back last week, but instead is the High Holidays in the hotel.
“My 6-year-old, sometimes he wakes up in the middle of the night asking, will it happen again? Will there be another storm?” Demidova told JTA.
Like so many communities devastated by the superstorm, the Jewish community of South Beach has spent nearly a year rebuilding. Still, much remains to be done.
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First Look: 9/11 Museum to balance grief with remembrance - PhotoBlog
Survivors' Stairs
As visitors descend from the memorial hall to bedrock level, they will walk beside the ‘Survivors' Stairs,’ a concrete stairwell that provided a means of escape for hundreds of people fleeing from the burning towers. The stairs, which led from the World Trade Center plaza to an adjoining street, remained intact after the towers' collapse and will guide museum visitors to the major exhibits. The staircase is particularly striking, Daniels said, because it is a reminder that the people escaping the attack that day “could have been any of us.”
The Century Bike Tour is back...no time for red lights.
My first contact with the annual Century Bike Tour sponsored by Transportation Alternatives was in 2011 when I tried to cross Neptune Avenue on my walk down Ocean Parkway to the Boardwalk. Although I had the green light waves of cyclists blew past their red light as they rode across the 7 lanes of Ocean Parkway going east on Neptune Avenue. Here is one of the photos that I took that morning showing riders crossing against the light..
I posted this comment on their website.
While I support the greater use and enjoyment of cycling in the city I must report that during the tour event on Sunday 9/18 too many riders were not obeying traffic rules. I walk down Ocean Parkway in Brooklyn to the Boardwalk every morning and today part of the tour crossed Ocean Parkway on the Neptune Avenue route. Ocean Parkway is a 6 lane highway and Neptune Avenue particularly is one of the most dangerous intersections in Brooklyn.Recently a walk countdown timer was installed at that intersection which indicates our concern for the people in that neighborhood many of whom are elderly. However, dozens of riders in packs rode through the intersection against the red light. Also many rode three or four abreast in the traffic lanes. If they did stop or slow down on Ocean Pkwy it was for a moment until they found a gap in the traffic so they could continue. Too many riders have little regard to pedestrians and I myself (who is a rider) had to wait to cross even though I had the light and the riders were riding through it and trying to beat the oncoming Ocean Pkwy taffic. This is not what I consider a safe or responsible way of using the roadways of this city and gives a bad name to cyclists. Many of these riders were experienced and unfortunately they were the ones who seemed to encourage the rest of the pack of riders to continue in this unsafe manner. I have photos from this morning that I would like to send to you. Thank you. Allan
Here is the response that I received on September 28 from Ben Roberts, the events manager.
Hello Allen,
Thank you for comments and concern regarding the NYC Century Bike Tour.
Transportation Alternatives is committed to promoting safe and legal bicycling, as evidenced through our Biking Rules! campaign. (www.bikingrules.org)
We also promote it on the NYC Century Bike Tour web site and expect all riders to follow all traffic regulations.
Again I am sorry to hear that some cyclists on our tour were not obeying the rules of the road, and I assure we will continue to promote Biking Rules!.
Ben McRoberts
127 West 26th Street #1002
So last year I went back to the same intersection with my video camera and recorded four separate videos that showed the following:
Riding through Ocean Parkway red lights.
Riding more than single file on a very narrow Neptune Avenue bike lane and spilling over into the traffic lane.
Not stopping at the red light at the first service road crosswalk and nosing up to Ocean Parkway.
Massing at the mall crosswalk area blocking Ocean Parkway pedestrian and bike lane.
Many cyclists rode safely but too many others ignored traffic laws and safe cycling rules.
"The solution is simple...post a tour volunteer at that intersection to monitor and direct the riders in a safe and responsible way."
Here is a link to a video I took of the way it should be done durng the 2013 Brooklyn Waterfront Epic Ride. The monitor is in red at the front waiting with the group at the light and stays on the other side until all have crossed safely.
Brooklyn Waterfront Epic Ride
Here are the links to the four videos that were taken that day:
Videos of Century Bike Tour 2012
Here is one of those videos:
Bensonhurst Bean » Blog Archive Stillwell Avenue Graffiti Mural Spotlighted By New York Times » Bensonhurst's News Blog
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The colorful and eerie graffiti mural lining the wall opposite the Stillwell Avenue subway station in Coney Island was singled out as some of the city’s most interesting graffiti. The New York Times highlighted the piece, noting that the creators are identical twin Brazilian brothers known as “os gemêos” (twins in Portuguese).
The brothers, identified as Otavio and Gustavo Pandolfo on their website, are gaining worldwide fame for their psychedelic and surrealistic creations. The Times noted that the piece was created in 2005 for the Dreamland Artist Club, a special project put together by Creative Time, a public art group.
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MobileShop.com Mobile Phone Shop UK
The Mobileshops website offers contracts with the main networks - Virgin, T Mobile, O2, 3, Orange, BT Mobile and Vodafone. Thousands of mobile phones and mobile broadband deals are available in one of the biggest online mobile stores, enabling you to compare and decide what's best for you all in one place. You can search for the phone you want by brand or by features, such as camera, Internet access, bluetooth and MP3 player. Mobileshop offers an extremely wide range of brands and models, including popular standards such as Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Pansonic, Sagem and Samsung as well as less easily available brands such Levi, fly and Alcatel. Within each brand range, you can buy variations of model and colour, covering practically any combination presently on the market. There's even a whole section devoted to pink phones of different brands and models in mobileshops website. If you prefer, you can search for a phone specifying the network that you want to use.
There is also a wide range of pay as you go phones at mobilesshop. You can search for what you require by brand, model, features, network and also by price range. The deal finder in the online mobile store enables you enter your criteria of budget, free minutes, number of texts, features and handsets so that you can find the best deal for your requirements.
A number of free gifts are available with monthly contracts including laptops, Playstation 3, Nintendo Wii and cashback. Cashback works by redemption at mobiles shop, whereby you pay the full monthly contract rate and return specified bills in order to receive a refund of part of the bill by cheque. The search facility allows you to choose a phone contract according to the free gift that you'd like to receive.
If you want to ensure that you don't miss out on new mobile phone handset releases, you can sign up for product updates through mobile shop to make sure that you get to know when new mobile phones are released on the UK's main five mobile phone networks. Details of features, specifications and release dates of new models appear on the website.
Mobileshops business phone service offers a wide variety of phones and tariffs through their dedicated business specialists. There's a special phone hotline, or you can email an enquiry via the website.
Mobile broadband services are also on offer through Mobileshop's website, from T Mobile, 3, Orange and Vodafone. An online guide explains what mobile broadband entails and explaining everything you need to know before you make a decision to buy.
Mobile shops website at www.mobileshop.com (www.mobileshop.co.uk is the same company though www.mobilestore.com and www.mobilestore.co.uk are owned by other firms) has a blog that's updated regularly and contains news reviews and information about events in the mobile phone world. You're able to leave comments on any of the articles posted there if you feel that you have something to add. Videos also appear in the blog, a recent one showing a collection of all of the Orange cinema advertisements ever made, collected from Youtube. The blog is much more than simply a place where new phones can be announced as it itemises mobiles used in television programmes and films and discusses scientific advances that could affect new phones coming on to the market. Older entries are indexed so you can browse through items that catch your interest and there's a selection of links to other websites that offer articles that might be of interest to those who want to know what's going on in the mobile phone world.
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Base de données FAOLEX
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Jamaïque - Profils du pays
Jamaica (Constitution) Order in Council 1962.
Date of text: 23 July 1962
Updated Nationally Determined Contribution of Jamaica to UNFCCC.
Date of text: 01 June 2020
Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Strategic Business Plan 2019/2020 – 2022/2023.
Date of text: 2019
National Policy on Poverty and National Poverty Reduction Programme.
Date of text: 01 September 2017
Youth In Agriculture Policy and Implementation Plan.
Date of text: 28 April 2017
Forest Policy for Jamaica 2017.
National Strategy and Action Plan on Biological Diversity in Jamaica 2016-2021.
Climate Change Policy Framework for Jamaica.
Social Protection Strategy 2014.
Operational Plan 2014 – 2015 of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.
Date of text: 18 May 2014
Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Business Plan.
Date of text: 14 March 2014
Voir davantage
Développement agricole et rural
Land Development and Utilization Act.
Date of original text: 01 December 1966 (1999)
Agricultural Loan Societies and Approved Organizations Act No. 31 of 2017.
Date of text: 21 November 2017
Jamaica Agricultural Commodities Regulatory Authority Act, 2017 (No. 1 of 2017).
Executive Agencies Act.
Date of original text: 01 April 2002 (2005)
Rural Agricultural Development Authority Act.
Date of original text: 17 May 1990 (2003)
Planning Institute of Jamaica Act.
Date of original text: 1984 (1987)
Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute Act.
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Plantes cultivées
Pesticides Act.
Date of original text: 13 July 1987 (2011)
Protection of Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture Act, 2013 (No. 1 of 2013).
Date of text: 08 February 2013
Plants (Quarantine) Act, 1993.
Date of original text: 14 September 1994 (1996)
Praedial Larcency Prevention Act.
Date of original text: 28 February 1983 (2002)
Tobacco Industry Regulation Act.
Rice Industry Board Act.
Date of original text: 01 October 1956 (1973)
Banana Board Act.
Gestion des risques de catastrophe
Disaster Risk Management Act, 2015 (No. 1 of 2015).
Disaster Risk Management (Enforcement Measures)(No. 2) Order, 2020 (No. 55 of 2020).
Disaster Risk Management (Enforcement Measures) Order, 2020.
Disaster Risk Management (Declaration of Disaster Area) Order, 2020 (No. 51 of 2020).
Natural Resources Conservation Authority Act, 1991.
Clean Air Act.
Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection Act, 2015 (No. 17 of 2015).
Date of text: 10 August 2015
National Solid Waste Management Authority Act.
Noise Abatement Act 1997.
Date of original text: 26 March 1997 (1999)
Petroleum and Oil Fuel (Landing and Storage) Act.
Date of original text: 13 November 1925 (2010)
Fisheries Act No. 18 of 2018.
Date of text: 24 December 2018
Wild life Protection Act.
Conch (Export Levy) (Special Provisions) Act, 2015 (No. 15 of 2015).
Conch (Export Levy) (Validation and Indemnity) Act, 2013 (No. 18 of 2013).
Conch (Export Levy) Act, 2009.
Morant and Pedro Cays Act.
Food and Drugs Act.
Aquaculture, Inland and Marine Products and By-products (Inspection, Licensing and Export) Act.
Jamaica Dairy Development Board Act (No. 4 of 2009).
Consumer Protection Act.
Date of original text: 01 June 2005 (2010)
Meat and Meat Products and Meat By-products (Inspection and Export) Act.
Standards Act.
Processed Food Act.
Forest Act, 1996.
Country Fires Act.
Forest Regulations, 2001.
Date of original text: 02 August 2001 (2003)
Town and Country Planning (Tree Preservation) Regulations, 1967.
Authorization made under section 5 (4) (6) of the Forest Act, 1937.
Forest (Removal of Timber and Property marks) Regulations 1938.
Terre et sols
Partnership (General) Act, 2017 (No. 3 of 2017).
Town and Country Planning (Negril and Green Island Area Local Planning Authority) (Validation and Integrity) Act, 2010 (No. 29 of 2010).
Public Gardens Regulation Act.
Registration of Titles, Cadastral Mapping and Tenure Clarification (Special Provisions) Act.
Law Reform (Protection and Enforcement of Public Rights) Act.
Animals (Artificial Insemination Control) Act, Cap. 12, 1950.
Animals (Control of Experiments) Act.
Animals (Diseases and Importation) Act.
Fertilizers and Feeding Stuffs Act.
Cruelty to Animals Act.
Keeping of Animals Act.
Ballast Water Management Act No. 2 of 2019.
Beach Control (Licence Fees)(Validation) Act, 2000 (No. 5 of 2000).
Shipping Act, 1998.
Maritime Areas Act.
Caribbean Maritime Institute Act.
Date of original text: 04 January 1993 (2002)
Exclusive Economic Zone Act, 1991.
Pilotage Act.
Water Resources Act.
National Water Commission Act.
Watersheds Protection Act.
Flood-Water Control Act.
Irrigation Act.
Parishes Water Supply Act.
Water Supply Act.
Espèces sauvages et écosystèmes
Endangered Species (Protection, Conservation and Regulation of Trade) Act.
Jamaica National Heritage Trust Act.
Tourist Board Act.
Wild Life Protection (Game Bird Hunting Limit) Regulations, 2007.
Agreement establishing the Caribbean Community Common Fisheries Policy.
Protocolo al Convenio para el Establecimiento de la Zona de Turismo Sustentable del Caribe (ZTSC).
Agreement Establishing the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism.
Convenio para el Establecimiento de la Zona de Turismo Sustentable del Caribe (ZTSC).
Agreement between the Government of the Jamaica and the Government of the Republic of Cuba on the delimitation of the maritime boundary between the two States.
Tratado de delimitación marítima entre la República de Colombia y Jamaica.
Memorandum of Understanding between the Belize Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and the Ministry of Agriculture of Jamaica.
Organes directeurs
Bureau de l'Inspecteur général
Bureau des affaires juridiques et de la déontologie
Départements et Bureaux de la FAO
Bureau régional pour l'Afrique
Bureau régional pour l'Asie et le Pacifique
Bureau régional pour l'Europe et l'Asie centrale
Bureau régional pour l'Amérique latine et les Caraïbes
Bureau régional pour le Proche-Orient et l'Afrique du Nord
Bureaux sous-régionaux
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INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH OF REPUBLIC OF NORTH MACEDONIA
Guardian of your health
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Department for tropical, quarantine diseases, STI, HIV/AIDS
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Department of Health Food Safety
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Department of Physiology and Nutrition Monitoring
Department of Codex Alimentarius and the contact SPS-WTO
Department of General Health eco-toxicology
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Department of sanitary inspections
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Department for health promotion and health education
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INFORMATION on the situation of measles in the Republic of North Macedonia in 2018-2019, November 1, 2019
In the period from 19.10-01.11.2019 one new case of measles was reported, This is an unvaccinated child in the 1-4 age group from Skopje.
The case is laboratory confirmed. No epidemiological link was found with another patient.
In total, since the onset of the epidemic in December 2018 as of November 1, 2019, 1901 cases of measles have been registered in the Republic of North Macedonia with a disease rate of 91.9 per 100,000 inhabitants.
Due to the epidemiological criteria, a measles epidemic is ongoing on the entire territory of the Republic of North Macedonia.
According to the results obtained from the samples sent to Luxembourg’s reference measles laboratory, the B3 Dublin genotype circulates in the country, which circulating also in the neighboring countries.
A total of 1123 children (preschool and school age) were vaccinated in the 42nd and 43 rd week in the country. The total number of immunized people aged 14 years with MRP vaccine since the start of the epidemic in the republic is 42746.
From the beginning of the epidemic to present date, in the Centers for Public Health, a total of 6295 people have been vaccinated, of which more than 60% are health workers, students and pupils in secondary medical schools, the rest are persons over 14 years of age.
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Healthy and active aging during pandemic COVID 19 May 14, 2020
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Tuesday, 22 November 2011 18:22 Written by Bonnie Tubbs
Alan Knott-Craig Jnr
The recent buyout of Africa’s largest mobile social media network, MXit, has brought about a change in the company’s strategy, as well as structure, which will see job losses.
World of Avatar, headed by technology entrepreneur Alan Knott-Craig Jnr, who bought out erstwhile MXit shareholder MIH Holdings – a Naspers subsidiary – announced the Stellenbosch-based social platform would see 19 retrenchments. While Knott-Craig said at the time of the acquisition that no retrenchments were expected, he recently said that World of Avatar’s existing system meant a duplication of certain designations. “World of Avatar had an infrastructure in place already, which made certain positions unnecessary.”
The move, he says, is based purely on infrastructure practicality and would see the workforce reduced to 121 employees.
In terms of future plans for MXit, Knott-Craig said at the time of the buyout that the short-term would see World of Avatar striving to maintain MXit’s growth and position as the largest mobile social network in Africa.
“This means a focus on consolidating and strengthening the core of the business, before we move to implement the long-term strategy.” World of Avatar bought 90% of MXit for an undisclosed amount in September. The network’s founder, Herman Heunis, relinquished his entire stake in the company. The remaining 10% share will stay in a staff trust established by Heunis in 2005.
Knott-Craig says MXit is still enjoying substantial activity and growth. “MXit sees on average 700 million to 800 million messages each day. This is significant if you consider that Vodacom sees 25 million SMSes being sent per day and Twitter 200 million messages a day, globally.”
A future plan for the social network platform, he says, is the redevelopment of its application programming interface. “We want to make it easier for third-party developers to hook into MXit and enhance the user’s experience of MXit on smartphones and the Internet.”
MXit has about 44 million registered users, with 11 million of this base being active.
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Sweet Memories of the '60s - Retro Candy and Other Treats
The band took its name from this peanut butter & caramel concoction and/or a type of moonshine liquor.
Not named after the Kelis song.
1960s Grab Bag from GroovyCandies.com
After perusing the candy & snack foods section of Walgreens on a lunch hour last week, bombarded by breath mints, sugarless gum, and rice cakes, I started thinking about all the sugar-saturated goodies from my childhood, I won't - or in some cases, can't, eat anymore. Candy necklaces are now replaced by Fruit Roll-Ups, healthy cereals and vegan bouillon cubes shaped like Angry Birds. (Only kidding about the bouillon cubes.)
When I e-mailed my 30 and 40 -something friends about their most beloved childhood candies, I received such non-commercial replies as "Remember those sugar dots on paper and you'd rip 'em off and there'd be paper on the bottom of em (Yummy!)" or "I used to love those wax sticks with extra sugary liquid inside." Occasionally, you see mock versions of these favorites in 59 cent packs by the check-outs of small supermarkets, along with other 60's standards. There are knock-off versions of chocolate wrapped like gold coins, candy and bubble gum cigarettes, Bazooka and Blackjack gum, and Chiclet gum in tiny burlap bags hovering near check-out counters of Bodegas and 7-11s nationwide.
Trading candy was a subculture among kids in the 1960s. We swapped Slo-pokes and Milk Duds like teeny-bop magazines and baseball cards. Cartoon characters were devised to sell sugary cereals, not vice versa. TV commercials introduced us to Quisp and Quake, the twerpy alien figure and the brawny he-man, not to mention Boo Berry and Count Chocula. Growing up in the 1960s, even some of the "bad" food we enjoyed had historical significance. For example, astronauts were a big thing, moon walks and all. Once my friends and I tried to emulate them by eating a lunch of Space Food Sticks and Tang...the only space-walking we did was to the bathroom.
Or how about the do it yourself treats? Incredible Edibles consisted of a mold and some gooey liquid- you'd pour it in, plug the contraption in and -waa-laa- an hour later- tooth decay!! Also on the must-have list - Easy Bake Ovens, as well as cotton candy makers featured in the back pages of the Sears Christmas Catalog. All of this punctuated by the smell of Crackerjack being created as we drove past the Crackerjack factory on on the way to Cubs games. But there was a definite and painful price for candy binges. I once ate a six pack or regular size Hershey bars in one sitting. A week later I was at the dentist for five fillings. Not to be outdone, my brother ate a whole pack of Baby Ruths one Halloween and was sick for a week. Aah, the days of sugar overload -a bonding experience for kids who grew up in the ‘60s and ‘70s.
I worked in the candy section of a Montgomery Wards in high school. Along with my co-workers, an aspiring actress and amateur filmmaker, I sprinted back and forth in the cubicle on nights and weekends. We must have run a marathon each by the end of the week, serving up Sno-Cones, butter-slathered popcorn and peanut-filled chocolate wedges that weighed a pound each. We scooped up bags of miniature Heath bars, jelly rings, peanut butter cups and Jolly Ranchers to polyester-clad housewives, Little Leaguers and scores of our Monkee Wards co-workers. The other store clerks loved to spend their break time getting a sugar rush and kibitzing with us about our creative projects. We were quite the store celebrities. (So, a writer, an actress and a filmmaker walk into a bar…) My co-workers and I pilfered a few candies here and there, but we didn't gain any weight. Running back and forth fetching candy that would render the customers hefty pared the weight off us.
Now candy is a kitsch thing, (there's a Pez museum in California), a snob thing (tangerines dipped in gourmet chocolate and such), or totally verboten by politically correct lawmakers and rice cake toting Super Moms. It’s interesting to note that most kids growing up in the 1960s and 1970s – even ‘80s kids who occasionally devoured Dweebs candies and Bar-None chocolate- didn’t become obese, develop ADHD or fall prey to other health problems like today’s kids. Kids back then played outside after school, riding bikes or walking to the mall instead of texting or sitting at a computer. Yeah, they watched lots of TV, but playing outside counteracted a lot of that inactivity.
Indulging in candy used to be a fun thing, a secret society for kids. I guess you might call the “sugar high” from candy a prelude to the “highs” we got from other things once adolescence hit. Sweets were a rite of passage, at least until the purchase of that first Tiger Beat made the candy counter at Wards passé.
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Hejira
by Erin McGraw
California Aggie
Joni Mitchell's fans have been waiting very impatiently for this album to appear. The universal disappointment in her last year's Hissing of Summer Lawns album has given this latest offering the quality of a critical test, with much of her pop audience at stake. And those who are still eagerly clutching their copies of Blue and singing along with Court and Spark are destined to be disappointed again, because ironically she is still singing the same things.
Mitchell's work has always been highlighted by her stable of familiar characters, lovingly drawn by soon left behind as she carried on her search for love and life and some beautiful elusive intangible. Her familiar family is back again. Indeed, there are even some resurrections, as she stays in the Cactus Tree Motel and she is still leaving them in search of something finer. But how long can she continue searching? Like many other current artists, notably Neil Young, who plays harmonica on one track, Mitchell is at a crossroads, unwilling to continue her hopeful travels, unsure of her outcome, but afraid to stop.
Hejira, the name of her new album, means travelling, the theme underscored, in most of the tracks: searching and coming and going, and the constant fear that her goal may not exist. Her lyrics reveal her torn, and vulnerable. "I wish that he was here tonight/It's so hard to obey/His sad request of me to kindly to stay away/So this is how I hide the hurt/As the road leads cursed and charmed." Unfortunately, her music is equally torn and vulnerable.
To say that the melodies of this album lack the easy accessibility of her earlier work is to invoke a vast understatement: the music of Hejira is adequate at its best. At its worst, it degenerates to two-chord chanting to accompany her poetic flights; certainly not an enhancement in the case of such lyrics as "We're like America and Russia, baby," when concealing melodies would clearly be euthanasia. And even her better efforts can scarcely mask, "Tell those girls that you've got Joni/She's coming back home."
That is the underlying weakness of Hejira- self-centeredness and self-pity new to Mitchell's work. She has moved from the role of insightful observer to enraged participant. Enraged that the mores that she so brilliantly and wittily recorded could be turned against her. Occasionally her humor does crop up, as in "Song for Sharon," but more often we see her comfort in melancholy as she hears Benny Goodman playing real good, for free.
Hejira has its moments. Mitchell is a brilliant lyricist, and "Amelia" and "Song for Sharon" are reminiscent of some of her best works. Hopefully she will stop travelling and searching long enough to find something before her next album.
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